Lance Hartford

Lance Hartford is a seasoned performance engineering professional with extensive experience across various technology companies, currently serving as Principal Performance Engineer at Posit PBC since January 2023. Previously, Lance contributed as a volunteer teacher of Math and Computer Science at Lighthouse Homeschool Cooperative from May 2021 to May 2023. Notable roles include Performance and Quality Lead at Cambridge Semantics Inc., specializing in performance testing for Anzo and AnzoGraph, and Performance Engineer at NuoDB, focusing on performance benchmarking and test automation for distributed cloud database systems. Additional experience includes consulting at Collaborative Consulting, software performance engineering at Good Technology, software development at Quest Software, and principal software development at Liberty Mutual. Lance holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Boston University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire.