Lance Orner - Senior Software Engineer

Lance Orner

Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Python, Django, and cloud asset management. Building custom internal web applications and automation tools for enterprise-scale operations.

Recent Posts

Green Tomato Pickle Recipe Card

December 1, 2024

This is the Family Recipe for “Green Tomato Pickle”, which is mostly used as a topping for a pot of beans. Sweet, vinegary, and a bit of cloves.

I went through some old files, and found the oldest family reference to this recipe, from Great-Grandma Box herself, and it’s dated 1917.

Handwritten family recipe card for Green Tomato Pickle from 1917, showing Great-Grandma Box’s recipe with ingredients and instructions in vintage handwriting

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About Us

October 6, 2024

The Orner family in November 2024 - Lance, Michelle, Grandpa, Sarah, and Justin gathered together for Thanksgiving celebration outdoors

Lance Orner currently works at Oracle as “Principle Member of Technical Staff” which is a fancy title for a Senior Software Engineer. Currently working on custom internal web applications using Python and Django to manage thousands of Oracle cloud assets, along with writing custom scripts and utilities to reports on asset management and issues.

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Roby the Costerbot

October 6, 2024

This is from 2010. We were building little Adruino robots using CD platters as a platform. Sarah was fascinated.

Young Sarah Orner sitting next to Roby the Costerbot, a small Arduino robot built on a CD platter platform, demonstrating early STEM learning in 2010

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