Title: Senior Performance Engineer
Company: Apple Inc.
Location: Auburn, California, United States
Robert M. Lane, senior performance engineer at Apple Inc., has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Engineers for dedication, achievements, and leadership in technology.
Mr. Lane is recognized for his expertise in technology, a field in which he has made significant contributions. Throughout his career, he has garnered respect and tenure, culminating in his role as a senior performance engineer at Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, since 2012. For over a decade, Mr. Lane has concentrated on managing the performance of Siri, Apple’s digital assistant technology. As such, he focuses on terabytes of data, working with data that has performance in line and applying queuing theory to it. He also identifies service matters, including what providing service involves, whether it be software or hardware issues, and determines the following steps to make corrections and adjustments.
Having begun his career over 35 years ago, Mr. Lane started working for Pyramid Technology Solutions Inc. in 1988 as a performance engineer, focusing on customer support, benchmarking and system performance engineering. Over the years, he continually progressed, earning opportunities with Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) as a senior staff engineer, the Transaction Processing Performance Council as a primary representative for Sun, MIPS Technology as a staff engineer specializing in performance, and Rearden Commerce (now Deem Inc.) as a principal performance engineer.
Before being recruited by Apple Inc., Mr. Lane was affiliated with Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, California, as a senior performance engineer from 2009 to 2011. This position encompassed serving as the primary representative to the SPEC Research Group. His work involved automated data collection, analysis, visualization and alerts within an agile development environment for both new and existing products. Among other tasks, Mr. Lane engaged in strategic performance initiatives and change management.
Highly educated, Mr. Lane received an undergraduate degree and a master’s degree in classics from Biola University in La Mirada, California, in 1976 and 1979, respectively. He also received programming certification through AT&T, making him highly qualified.
As part of his continued success, Mr. Lane is actively involved with the Computer Measurement Group and serves on the technical advisory board of the Transaction Processing Performance Council. During his career, he has been recognized for his hard work as the co-inventor of a United States patent for methods to optimize computer system performance counter utilization, granted in 2011. Mr. Lane has also secured numerous additional patents. However, he is most proud of the one that applies the theory to the collection of performance metrics.
Mr. Lane has engaged in various business-related endeavors, including as a CMG presenter. He was also recognized as an invited speaker at his alma mater’s Stewart Science Honors Program and other forums.
In light of his success, Mr. Lane received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Computer Measurement Group. He has also been awarded several bonuses and trips during his tenure at Pyramid Technology Solutions Inc. and Sun Microsystems. Mr. Lane’s expertise in modeling performance, combined with his strong faith, has been instrumental in his career accomplishments.
In preparation for the future, Mr. Lane intends to continue making meaningful contributions to his field before ultimately retiring. Once retired, he plans to focus on addressing the dire conditions and challenges faced by the African population, as well as various health care challenges.
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