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Michael Lane
Engineering leader · AI, LLM and SaaS platforms
Dallas, Texas · michael@michaellane.ai ·linkedin.com/in/michaelnlane · github.com/arsindelve
Summary
Engineering executive with 17 years leading teams and 19 years shipping production software. Most recently VP of Software Development at Rev, leading a 60-person organization across AI, SaaS and mobile, including the #1 G2-ranked legal AI assistant. Hands-on with LLM systems, RAG and multi-agent architectures, and with AI-assisted development in my own work.
Experience
Vice President of Software Development · Rev
Aug 2025 – Mar 2026Led a 60-person engineering organization across product engineering, AI, R&D and design, responsible for Rev’s AI, SaaS and mobile platforms.
- Ran engineering for Rev’s LLM-based legal assistant, a RAG and multi-agent system ranked the #1 leader in G2’s AI Legal Assistant category (Summer 2025), built on Rev’s speech-to-text.
- Set technical direction and organizational strategy for the core products.
Senior Director, Software Development, SaaS · Rev
Mar 2024 – Aug 2025Led the teams building Rev’s SaaS platform: customer-facing product and core platform services.
- Moved Rev from transactional to subscription billing: Zuora integration, seat-based plans and a new purchase experience. It now drives 750+ self-serve sign-ups a day.
- Brought the first applied-AI capabilities (LLMs, retrieval, agent workflows) into the SaaS product.
Director of Software Engineering · Cart.com
Aug 2022 – Mar 2024Led the Core Services teams (identity, orders, shipping, notifications), then the Fulfillment group running warehouse software across 13 locations.
Director of Software Engineering, Tidel Division · Sesami
Jan 2021 – Aug 2022Led 16 engineers and 2 managers. Moved a 20-year-old Subversion codebase to Git and Azure DevOps, with CI/CD, automated testing, real code review and Scrum.
Vice President of Software Development · Premier Designs
Jan 2017 – Dec 2020Member of the executive team. Owned servers, network, security, data, ERP and software development, and a multi-million-dollar annual IT budget.
Head of Development · LinkGreen
Apr 2014 – Jan 2017Led technology for a start-up from inception through R&D to launch in 2016, with daily automated deploys to Azure.
Senior Software Development Manager · Kobo
Sep 2012 – Apr 2014Managed two teams building kobo.com, where readers worldwide buy from a catalog of three million e-books.
Software Development Manager · Toolbox Solutions
Mar 2011 – Sep 2012Led two .NET teams. Toolbox was later acquired by SPS Commerce.
Software Development Manager · Logitech
Jan 2009 – Mar 2011First management role: local and offshore iPhone teams, Scrum, TDD and CI, and the Logitech Revue for Google TV. A commercial failure, but I loved being on the team that built it.
Senior .NET Developer · GPS Industries · illumiCell
May 2007 – Oct 2008Hands-on C# and SQL Server: domain models, web service layers, and the start of a habit of test-driven design.
Selected projects
- ZorkAI (2024 – now). An engine that rebuilds Infocom’s text adventures with an AI narrator who never breaks character.
- PlayZork (2025 – now). Research into LLM agents on long-horizon problems, using Zork as the testbed.
- Unopened Worlds (2026). A tribute to the 32 Infocom “grey-box” games from 1980 to 1988, photographed from my own collection, with the two AI rebuilds as the epilogue..
- The Manifest Chronicles (1992 / 2026). A first-person dungeon crawler I wrote in QuickBASIC in high school: four 50×50 levels, 48 monsters, a wizard named Beldan.
Education
- MSc, Artificial Intelligence, East Texas A&M University, In progress
- MBA, East Texas A&M University, Graduated 2025 · 4.0 GPA
Also
Private pilot · Competitive hockey · English, French, Spanish