Gus Luxton
Principal Solutions Engineer at Teleport
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolGus Luxton is a Principal Solutions Engineer with 11 years of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading solution architecture and pre-sales at Teleport from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He progressed through roles from DevOps and release engineering into customer-facing solutions, marrying deep operational know-how with pragmatic product demonstrations and designs. Gus has a strong SRE/production engineering background from Meta and hands-on AWS automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, Packer and CloudFormation, including CI/CD and AMI automation for the widely used Teleport project. He excels at translating complex distributed-systems requirements into repeatable, automated deployment patterns and is comfortable working across both engineering and customer success functions. An uncommon asset is his blend of large-scale video-platform reliability experience and financial-trading operations knowledge, giving him a nuanced perspective on performance-sensitive, highly available systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Multimedia Systems Computers Technology, Computer and Multimedia Systems Computers Technology at University of LiverpoolThe Highfield School
Spanish, French
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Github Skills (23)
bash10
cicd10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
jenkins10
teleport10
jenkins-ci10
terraform9
dockers9
docker9
automation9
terraformer9
automations9
packer8
kubernetes7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleport
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:31 releases, 1646 reviews, 1121 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gus's commits primarily involve the AWS Quickstart setup and CI/CD testing for the Teleport project. Their contributions include the creation of scripts for updating AMI IDs, modifying the Makefile, and developing basic Jenkinsfiles for automated builds and deployments. They added support for features like integrating Teleport with an existing VPC using Cloudformation and automating AMI builds. The work is focused on streamlining the building, testing, and deployment process for AWS-based deployments using Packer images and Cloudformation.
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gravitational/teleport-plugins
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Set of plugins for Teleport
Contributions:2 releases, 19 reviews, 195 commits in 2 years 7 months
teleportplugin
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