Lance Anderson

Experience

Proven software engineering leader with 15+ years of expertise driving end-to-end development, building high-performing teams, and delivering scalable, user-centric web applications. Skilled in technical leadership, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration to accelerate innovation and product delivery. I have worked across private and government sectors, and have held active security clearances.

1. BluePath Labs

   (September 2021 - Present)

   1. Director of Engineering

      (December 2024 - Present)

      Lead Software Engineer

      (November 2022 - December 2024)

      Senior Front-End Developer

      (September 2021 - November 2022)
      • Lead software and data science teams, delivering scalable web applications for external clients and internal R&D projects.
      • Manage project budgets exceeding $500K, oversee resource planning, and track P&L to drive profitability.
      • Spearheaded process improvements including knowledge-sharing cadences, boosting cross-team collaboration and efficiency.
      • Lead designer, full stack developer, and engineering leader for a bibliometric research tool providing valuable insights to researchers and analysts around R&D and investment funding, technology leadership, business partnerships, patents, and emerging trends.
      • Overhauled the system authorization framework, adding organization-level controls such as active licensing and role-based permissions.
      • Developed a unified filtering system enabling cross-view result filtering, and historical filter recall, enhancing usability.
      • Implemented backend service performance monitoring via Azure Application Insights, improving system responsiveness and identifying optimization opportunities.
      • Scaled engineering team, doubling headcount to expand delivery capacity and technical expertise.
      • Lead architecture and delivery of full-stack web applications for multiple clients, generating over $1M in custom development deliverables.
      • Build and maintain a variety of backend microservices using Node/ExpressJS to query data from PostgreSQL and/or Elasticsearch to provide to application frontends.
      • Designed and built an entity drilldown feature, which included extensive UI changes, as well as the development of a new backend service to accept entity detail requests for multiple types, process and generate the correct Elasticsearch queries and aggregations, as well as PostgreSQL queries, and process the data to be combined into JSON objects formatted for the frontend.
      • Built a Chinese language translation viewer, which displays blocks of translated text for English-speaking analysts to view over-top of documents written in Chinese, as well as allowing them to pin and re-order sections to export in a format of their choosing.
      • Created design systems in Figma for multiple applications, including dozens of components, a color palette, typography, spacing, etc. Implemented this design system in code by performing major layout changes, adding color system and other items as SCSS variables and components, and updated all relevant references throughout the applications.

2. The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

   (April 2015 - September 2021)

   1. Software Developer Senior

      (January 2019 - September 2021)

      Software Developer

      (October 2016 - January 2019)

      Business Systems Analyst II - Developer/Web

      (April 2015 - October 2016)
      • Lead development of high-impact internal applications, spanning UX design, prototyping, and frontend development.
      • Architected an NLP-powered analytics platform for investor relations transcripts, enabling advanced search and insights across thousands of financial records.
      • Delivered mission-critical tools for the Paycheck Protection Program, processing thousands of loan applications and associated payments which was a critical function of the United States financial system during the COVID-19 crisis.
      • Created applications that used embedded Tableau dashboards via JavaScript APIs with seamless data interaction for enhanced analytics.
      • Co-founded a UX testing lab equipped with eye-tracking, focus-group space, session-monitoring, and more. I was awarded the Spirit of Innovation award for my work on this project.
      • Created a custom in-house analytics platform to track usage data across 15 internal web applications. This data was used to shape future project planning and better focus our efforts around tools that were getting the most use.
      • Coached and mentored other developers, as well as created and ran multiple training classes, improving technical and soft skills for several members of the development team.
      • Acted as project lead, including coordinating Agile sprints and SCRUM ceremonies, and directed the work of others.

3. DRB Systems

   (February 2013 - March 2015)

   1. Senior Graphic Designer

      • Headed the media department, transforming it into a revenue-generating unit, tripling annual revenue from $81K to $263K.
      • Streamlined order fulfillment processes, reducing turnaround times and improving client satisfaction.
      • Worked on cutting edge consumer-facing electronic UI and touch interfaces.
      • Lead business process improvement of all media related order and delivery mechanisms immediately upon arrival. This directly improved fulfillment times and increased customer satisfaction.

4. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

   (June 2007 - February 2013)

   1. Web Designer/Developer

      (May 2009 - February 2013)

      Application Development Specialist

      (June 2007 - May 2009)
      • Designed and developed high-traffic external and internal web applications, including goodyear.com, goodyearaviation.com, and commercial truck tire platforms.
      • Designed the user interface for a customer-facing commercial tire mobile application for iPhone and Android devices.
      • Developed a web application using JavaScript and XML connected through the Google Maps API to act as a store locator for Goodyear Aviation distributors.
      • Developed ETL pipelines using Informatica PowerCenter and SQL to support enterprise data warehouse initiatives.