Lane Spangler

Career

Oct 2026 to now

Ableton, Applied AI Engineer (freelance)

Building Chariot, an AI prototyping tool: describe a change to Live, Push, Move or Note and try it in a working build of the real product. I launched it at a hack sprint on my own initiative, and designers and product managers across Ableton's product teams adopted it.

Jul 2026 to now

0k.computer, independent

A local-first system that agents can operate, unreleased. Coding agents write most of it under my direction, held to quality by executable specs and a queryable trace of every run.

Apr 2023 to Jul 2026

Ableton, Software Engineer, Live UI

One of two engineers setting technical direction for Live's UI. Built a time-travel debugger that replays state from recorded input, traces each change to its cause and reconstructs any past frame. Shipped generative composition tools for Live 12.

Sep 2019 to Apr 2023

Ableton, Software Engineer, Integrations

Overhauled the platform third-party controllers use to drive Live and led its migration to Python 3. Built the hardware-display layer Ableton Move later shipped on.

Jul 2018 to Jul 2019

Coshx Labs, Full Stack Engineer

Shipped client web apps end to end, including one a hospital used to triage employee burnout.

2014 to 2018

University of Virginia

B.S., Computer Science.

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