Don Lampert

Engineering Strategy • Organizational Leadership • 16 Years at Scale

Hands-On Technical Leadership • Platform Influence • 2 Granted Patents • AI-Forward Engineering

About Me

I'm a software leader with proven experience building and scaling teams, products, and platform capabilities across startups, fintech, and enterprise environments.

My work has centered on environments where quality, observability, and strong cross-functional alignment matter. I stay hands-on working alongside my team writing code, reviewing designs, and debugging while shaping platform strategy. My roles have combined leadership vision and practical expertise to translate product goals into technical execution plans and ultimately into successful products.

Relevant strengths

  • • Leading high-trust engineering organizations in fast-moving environments
  • • Balancing hands-on code contribution and architectural design with mentorship and technical guidance across teams
  • • Shaping platform strategy and organizational direction at scale
  • • Translating ambiguous product goals into clear strategy, roadmaps, and execution frameworks
  • • Creating alignment across executive stakeholders, teams, and technical partners at scale
Hands-On Engineering
System Design
Scalable Systems
Reliability
Platform Strategy
Technical Leadership
AI Enablement

Professional Experience

Software Engineering Lead
2022-Present
Remote / US
  • Shape strategy and execution across large-scale infrastructure, spanning E*Trade and Morgan Stanley data centers, staying directly involved in code review, design review, and release governance.
  • Align teams, priorities, and cross-functional deliveries while working within and supporting strong controls around segregated review/approval responsibilities, staged rollouts, and rollback readiness.
  • Lead AI enablement and developer productivity initiatives that influence platform direction and organizational adoption at scale.
  • Joined Morgan Stanley following the acquisition of blooom's team and technologies and assumed leadership responsibility for multiple development squads.
React
TypeScript
C#
Java
Platform Leadership
Enterprise Delivery
Deployment Controls
Segregation of Duties
Hands-On Engineering
Tech Reviews
Developer Productivity
AI Enablement
Technical Team Lead
2016-2022
Leawood, KS -> Remote / US
  • Led development team and technical strategy for automated retirement account management, building a high-velocity fintech environment focused on scalable execution, stability, and automated rebalancing workflows in a fast-moving product setting.
  • One of the first engineers, full-stack, to successful exit.
React
JavaScript
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Product Leadership
Platform Delivery
Scalable Systems
Automation
Software Engineer, Client Architecture
2014-2016
Shawnee, KS / US
  • Developed core components of a modern enterprise web application platform that unified content-oriented workflows across multiple products.
  • This work emphasized architecture, platform thinking, and long-term extensibility, and it led to patentable innovation.
JavaScript
Platform Architecture
Enterprise Systems
Software Engineer, Globalization
2011-2014
Shawnee, KS / US
  • Specialized in internationalization and localization for enterprise content management software, leading a company-wide globalization effort and managing translation workflows across 10+ languages while improving release quality and process consistency.
  • This work expanded following Lexmark's acquisition of Perceptive Software and subsequent acquisitions under the Perceptive Software enterprise content management umbrella.
C++
Globalization
Operational Excellence
Enterprise Delivery
Software Engineer, Portable Aviation
2009-2011
Olathe, KS
  • Implemented flight data logging, flight plan importation/exportation, and checklists.
  • Developed GUIs, user-map interactions, drag-able lists, and default page layouts.
C
Systems Thinking
Embedded Platforms

Selected Leadership & Product Work

Deferred Compensation on E*Trade
2026
Morgan Stanley

Led development, teams, and delivery of Deferred Compensation experience on E*Trade, which enables employees to view and manage their Deferred Compensation accounts. This work involved cross-functional collaboration, platform integration, and ensuring a seamless user experience for high-value financial products.

React
Java
C#
MS SQL
Automated Retirement Account Management System
2018
blooom

Built a sophisticated automation platform to manage retirement accounts at scale, combining browser automation, backend services, and data workflows to support real-time portfolio actions and operational reliability.

JavaScript
Node.js
Puppeteer
Chrome APIs
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
AWS
React
WebSockets
Enterprise Content Management Client Platform
2015
Lexmark International

Developed core components of an enterprise web application platform for advanced document management and workflow capabilities, emphasizing modular architecture and long-term adaptability.

JavaScript
Node.js
NPM
jQuery Globalize
Internationalization
Multi-Language Enterprise Globalization Platform
2013
Lexmark International

Led the design and implementation of a comprehensive internationalization system supporting 10+ languages for enterprise software, including custom translation management workflows and process automation.

C++
ICU
Perl
Internationalization
Localization

Patents

Granted
2020
US Patent #10,592,524

A framework that loads multiple standalone applications (web-based or native) and mediates data sharing between them via a shared 'context object.' When a user selects content in one application, the framework broadcasts the change to the other applications, each of which can independently search or act on it using its own data source.

JavaScript
Node.js
C#
Context Sharing Architecture

A method for grouping multiple browser connections to the same web application (sharing credentials) into a 'connection group,' and enabling direct message-passing among group members via a facilitator service for cross-tab/cross-window communication.

JavaScript
Node.js
C#
Client Communication Architecture
2016
Application #2016/0335328

A system for mobile devices that monitors a designated app for a specific context (e.g., a contact's name), and automatically runs a background search for related content in other apps on the device, notifying the user of the results without requiring a manual search.

Java
Mobile Development
Cross-Application

Let's Connect

Interested in discussing engineering leadership, platform strategy, AI-enabled product development, or opportunities to build reliable software at scale? I’m always open to connecting with fellow professionals and exploring new challenges.