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Lucas MacMillan

Ravensdale,WA

Summary

Accomplished Senior Software Engineer at Highspot with expertise in Ruby and a proven track record in driving data governance and supporting automation. Recognized for increasing test coverage and reducing defect backlog, while mentoring cross-functional teams to achieve operational excellence. Passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Highspot
Seattle, WA
05.2025 - Current
  • Oversaw college intern in development of AI video generation project.
  • Managed legacy feature with high priority for customer requests.
  • Enhanced telemetry and reliability while modernizing technology stack.

Software Engineer II

Highspot
Seattle, WA
06.2021 - 05.2025
  • Designed and implemented a scalable AI-driven solution that informs customers of actionable steps, adaptable to all customer environments.
  • Built a robust system for asynchronous and recurring bulk data updates, laying the groundwork for future AI-powered automation.
  • Drove data and process governance across Highspot's development ecosystem, creating and managing a permissions model and content approval workflows to enhance enterprise quality.
  • Designed and implemented a scalable client audit log feature for the content approval workflow, adopted by ~10% of clients.
  • Led development of a new feature enabling content owners to set visibility and publishing criteria, improving quality and governance.
  • Deployed Highspot’s first independent microservice using Dockerization and automation.
  • Led development of a new feature allowing content owners to set properties/criteria for visibility and publishing, improving quality and governance across accounts.
  • Increased unit and integration test coverage by 25% via automated testing, reducing defects, and modernizing legacy code.
  • Reduced defect backlog by 42% in under 2.5 years.

Software Engineer II

Sincro (An Ansira Company)
Seattle, WA
06.2020 - 07.2021
  • Owned deployment tooling for 600+ apps, supporting 200 developers.
  • Led migration from file systems to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL.
  • Automated performance testing across 6000+ customer websites.

Software Engineer

Sincro / CDK Global
Seattle, WA
06.2018 - 06.2020
  • Built and enhanced internal platforms using Java, Vaadin, and Spring.
  • Drove operational improvements, achieving 99.99% uptime.
  • Mentored high school interns and led cross-team knowledge sharing.

Intern

CDK Global & Affirma Consulting
06.2016 - 08.2017
  • Built a voice-activated feature that generated $1M+ revenue.
  • Supported a youth coding camp, helping students learn C# and Unity.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics & Computer Science

The College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID
05-2018

High School Diploma -

Glacier Peak High School
Snohomish, WA
06-2014

Skills

  • Java
  • Python
  • C
  • C#
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby
  • Shell
  • Spring
  • Docker
  • GitHub
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Unit/integration testing
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS Aurora
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Solr
  • AWS
  • REST APIs
  • TDD
  • Agile
  • Feature Flags
  • Audit logging
  • Content approval workflows
  • Rule enforcement
  • Visibility controls
  • Mentoring
  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Documentation
  • Presentations
  • Troubleshooting

Certification

MongoDB Associate Developer, 2023-11-01

Business And Governance Skills

Audit logging, content approval workflows, rule enforcement, visibility controls, Mentoring, cross-functional leadership, documentation, presentations, troubleshooting

Recognition And Awards

  • XCG Eng Award, Highspot Content & Guidance Engineering, 2023-06-01
  • XCG Eng Award, Highspot Content & Guidance Engineering, 2023-09-01
  • Product & Engineering Reward, Highspot Product Engineering, 2023-10-01

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Highspot
05.2025 - Current

Software Engineer II

Highspot
06.2021 - 05.2025

Software Engineer II

Sincro (An Ansira Company)
06.2020 - 07.2021

Software Engineer

Sincro / CDK Global
06.2018 - 06.2020

Intern

CDK Global & Affirma Consulting
06.2016 - 08.2017

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics & Computer Science

The College of Idaho

High School Diploma -

Glacier Peak High School

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