David Lutz
Lead Systems Engineer at REA Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Lutz is a Lead Systems Engineer based in Melbourne with 14 years of experience designing and operating highly available Linux infrastructure for large consumer web platforms. He has progressed through senior and leadership roles at REA Group and Lonely Planet, marrying hands-on system administration with deployment automation, performance tuning, and resilient AWS operations. Comfortable working within Agile teams, he has driven improvements in monitoring, incident management, and continuous deployment pipelines across diverse stacks (Nginx, Varnish, MySQL/RDS, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch). Known for pragmatic problem-solving and postmortems, he blends technical depth in configuration management (Chef/Puppet) with a focus on measurable reliability outcomes. Colleagues would describe him as a hands-on leader who still enjoys diving into debugging and optimization—he even jokes about being an occasional time traveller when rescuing systems at odd hours.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (31)
amazon10
guzzle9
http-header9
extensible8
curl8
php8
http-client8
graphite8
rootkit8
monitoring8
integrity7
psr-77
grafana7
ossec7
opentsdb7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vmetrix/vacuumetrix
Jun 2012 - Jul 2019
Suck up metrics from various sources and spit them into Graphite, Ganglia and OpenTSDB
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 19 PRs in 7 years 2 months
amazongrafanaprometheusgraphiteopentsdb
dlutzy/vacuumetrix
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
grafanaprometheusgraphiteopentsdbmetrics
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