André Lucas
Principal Software Engineer at Akamai
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAndré Lucas is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience in DevOps and IT infrastructure, now focusing on large-scale systems at Akamai while also serving as Chief Architect at StorageOS. He has led engineering teams at fast-growing storage startups, transforming product architectures and operational practices from early-stage datacentre builds to production-grade, software-defined storage platforms. Prior roles across major financial institutions and public sector organisations gave him deep experience running multi-year core infrastructure projects under strict operational and compliance constraints. Known for blending pragmatic engineering with strong leadership, he moves easily between coding, architecture and people management to deliver reliable systems at scale. Based in Newbury, England, he is comfortable in both startup and enterprise environments and often brings lessons from high-pressure banking ops into cloud-native infrastructure design. A practical UNIX/Linux specialist, he pairs institutional-grade operational rigor with a startup’s speed to iterate.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (37)
ruby10
homebrew10
docker8
api8
docker-build8
storage8
golang7
command-line-interface7
go7
cli7
kubernetes6
jetstream6
message-bus5
docker-volume5
messaging5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andrelucas/hsync
Sep 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:267 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
andrelucas/csize
Feb 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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