Alex Lutay
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolAlex Lutay is an experienced engineering manager with 13 years in software leadership, currently driving teams at Canonical after senior development and QA leadership roles at Sipwise and PortaOne. He brings deep operational and quality-first sensibilities shaped by a career that progressed from support and testing to VP-level development oversight. Based in Vienna and grounded in a master's in physics/electronics, Alex blends systems thinking with hands-on knowledge of cloud-native operators (notably Charmed MySQL and PostgreSQL) across VMs and Kubernetes. Known for turning rigorous QA discipline into scalable engineering practices, he excels at aligning product delivery with reliable operational experience. An underrated strength is his long-term continuity across teams and roles, which helps him balance technical debt, process, and people development effectively.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, mathematics, Physics, mathematics at Ukrainian physical-mathematical lyceum of T.Shevchenko UniversityMaster's degree, Physics, electronics (Radiophysics research engineer), Master's degree, Physics, electronics (Radiophysics research engineer) at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
English, Ukrainian, Russian, German
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Github Skills (200)
mysql-router10
postgresql10
hyper-v10
sctp10
testing10
health-check10
nagios10
ubuntu10
ruby10
automation10
operator10
kamailio10
qemu10
linux10
multipass10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
sipwise/asterisk
Jun 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 commits in 1 year 7 months
sipwise/system-tests
Mar 2014 - May 2022
Contributions:279 commits in 8 years 3 months
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