Jason Lunz
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Lunz is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of professional experience and a 20-year background as a computing generalist focused on distributed systems, Linux internals, network programming, scalability, virtualization, and cloud computing. At GitHub he contributes to widely used open-source tooling, notably enhancing the official gh CLI around Codespaces and SSH proxying to improve developer workflows. Previously he led technical efforts at Redfin and built networking and hypervisor-level solutions as a principal engineer at Reflex Systems, giving him rare end-to-end expertise across hypervisor, OS, and application stacks. Known for pragmatic refactors and automation, he blends deep low-level systems knowledge with product-oriented feature work to make complex infrastructure reliably operable.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSCS, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, 3.88, BSCS, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, 3.88 at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
git10
go10
cli10
command-line9
github-api9
command-line-interface9
automations8
automation8
golang8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cli/cli
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
GitHub’s official command line tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 44 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason implemented new features and refactored existing ones related to the command-line interface (CLI) tool for GitHub. They focused on enhancing the 'gh cs ssh' command, by adding features such as proxying the SSHD connection to stdio and generating OpenSSH configuration files. The user also made contributions to the codebase related to codespaces, including implementing new functions and refactoring existing ones for improved functionality and maintainability. These changes involved incorporating new libraries, refactoring existing code, and improving the command-line user experience.
golangcommand-line-toolgocommand-linecli
znull/znull
Aug 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 2 months
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