Engineering experience behind the recruitment
Lance’s engineering background spans electronics design, firmware development, real-time networking and embedded development tools.
At Vacuumatic, he established an electronics and firmware development function, working across schematic design, C and 68HC11 assembly, prototyping, production and testing. At Aristocrat, he developed RTOS-based firmware for RS485 player tracking systems deployed across Australia, the US and Europe. At SCITEC, he worked on Ethernet interfaces, bridging, TCP/IP routing and frame relay software. His experience also includes early PostScript printer engines at IBM and product management, developer training and technical support for Mentor Graphics’ embedded tools.
Lance continued learning as technology evolved, moving through the client/server era into Unix/Linux systems, server hardware builds, virtualization including Proxmox, in-depth Linux administration, systems programming and application development.
His recent work includes Python automation, API integrations and MCP servers, vector search with Qdrant, Parquet-based data pipelines, and self-hosted language models running on local GPU hardware. He brings these together in agentic workflows for sourcing, screening, research and recruitment operations, using Tailscale for private connectivity between systems.
He also continues working with embedded hardware, including ESP32 development with ESP-IDF, e-ink interfaces, RISC-V operating-system bring-up and legacy Transputer integration.
This ongoing work gives him practical context when discussing an engineering brief or assessing what a candidate actually built, owned and delivered.
