> Hello. I'm Lanie.

I’m currently a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer delivering 4 9’s of reliability at Temporal.

I grew up in Minnesota, hiked many miles while living in Seattle, and now have found my way to San Francisco.

I’m drawn to human-oriented systems. I began school for architecture, but finished with a degree in structural engineering. I delighted in being able to mathematically prove resilience for the systems that people depend on. I taught myself programming while following a curiosity. Somewhere along the way, I’ve found the thread back to architecture by not trying to control the systems I work on, but learning to dance with them. [Meadows]

Here are a few pieces I’ve written over the years, one of which made it to the front page of Hacker News: hive mind (2026), marathon (2023), midwest developer (2021), what I learned about interviewing (2021), what among us teaches us about byzantine failure (2020), goplay shortcode (2020), parsing a form pitfalls (2020). Let me know if you have any ideas on what to do with all these door photos I keep taking.

When I’m not in front of a computer, you can find me looking at moss in the mountains with my dog, Stella, working through the stack of books that somehow never shrinks, training for my next marathon, or throwing mud at the pottery studio.