Jamison Lahman — Resumé

Mountain View, CA 94041 — 650-550-0490 — jamison@lahman.dev

Summary

Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience as a generalist across platform, backend, frontend, DevOps, and tooling. Spent 6 years at a high-growth startup, owning critical infrastructure through scale. Deep expertise in Python including major migrations (Python 2→3, cross-platform support, Cython). Recently focused on Go for developer experience optimizations and managing a large monorepo codebase. Led CI/CD infrastructure from bare-metal to hybrid cloud with auto-scaling. Experienced with Git, Bazel, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform. Values simplicity, reliability, and efficiency.

Experience

Software Engineer - Platform — Applied Intuition, Inc., Mountain View, CA Nov 2020 - Present
  • Re-architected a monolithic application into microservices, owning shared services (e.g., configuration, DB interfaces); reduced feature lead times by weeks and reduced deployment time by hours.
  • Introduced ephemeral, auto-scaling cloud infrastructure, cutting costs by 80%, eliminating p99 wait times in CI, and supporting 10× operational growth over 3 years.
  • Led internal DevTools efforts (static typing, linting, formatting, code coverage), reducing production failures by ~30%.
Quality Assurance Engineer — Applied Intuition, Inc., Mountain View, CA April 2019 - Nov 2020
  • Migrated from Selenium to Playwright, reducing end-to-end test runtimes by 60% and false positives by 20% while maintaining coverage.
  • Replaced file-based test selection with build dependency queries, reducing CI p50 time by 20 minutes and reducing total compute cost by 40%.
  • Owned CI/CD infrastructure including on-prem and cloud (Azure, AWS EC2) servers, test selection and orchestration, build health, and data pipelines.
Software Quality Operations — Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA June 2017 - April 2019
  • Investigated simulator crashes and test failures as first-pass triage.
  • Created custom Google Sheets integrations with Apps Script and Dremel SQL, saving a day of manual effort per week.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics — Ohio University, Athens, OH
Minor in Mathematics		 Aug 2014 - April 2017