Alex Lustenberg
System Engineer at BornTec
Burlington, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Lustenberg is a systems engineer and Linux-focused DevOps practitioner with over 12 years of professional experience and more than 25 years of hands-on systems work, spanning infrastructure, automation, and full-stack contracting. He currently works at BornTec and runs BitHerding LLC, where he provides Linux DevOps and full-stack solutions, blending freelance agility with enterprise-grade reliability. His background includes building high-throughput advertising platforms, automating cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and SoftLayer, and implementing configuration management at scale with tools like Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, and Jenkins. Alex has supported SaaS reliability, customer-facing platform engineering, and live broadcast production, giving him rare operational depth across both web services and AV systems. Based in Burlington, Kentucky, he’s a practical problem-solver who often bridges support, development, and infrastructure work to deliver reproducible, automated environments. He brings a builder’s mentality—comfortable in legacy Perl systems as well as modern cloud-native toolchains—making him effective at rescuing brittle systems and turning them into maintainable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Conner High SchoolNorthern Kentucky University
Stackoverflow
36reputation
370reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (68)
python10
ansible10
listings9
populate9
platformsh9
automation9
ssh9
devops9
documentation9
developer-tools8
cml8
machine-learning8
infrastructure-as-code8
version-control8
data-models8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alustenberg/snippets
Mar 2014 - Nov 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes in 6 years 9 months
alustenberg/megasquirt
Sep 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 12 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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