Joel Lutman
Senior Platform Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJoel Lutman is a Senior Platform Engineer and founder-turned-consultant with about a decade of experience building cloud-native, data-intensive systems and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He combines hands-on expertise in big data, Spark, Kafka and serverless architectures with strong SRE and CI/CD practices to deliver resilient platforms for clients like Vodafone, SiriusXM and HSBC. As an engineering manager he has driven availability improvements to 99.5%+, introduced Infrastructure as Code and event-driven patterns, and coached teams in agile and clean-code practices. Joel is AWS-certified and an active AWS community builder who blends solution architecture thinking with practical delivery—often implementing chaos testing, observability stacks and Terraform-driven migrations. He holds an MSc in Mathematical Biology and a BSc in Mathematics, bringing a quantitative lens to system design and a track record of translating business goals into measurable technical outcomes. Based in Vancouver, he still balances consultancy work with an in-house platform role, reflecting a rare mix of product ownership and deep technical execution.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Mathematical Biology, Master of Science (MSc) Mathematical Biology at University of BathBachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mathematics at University of Sussex
English
Stackoverflow
788reputation
154kreached
19answers
12questions
Github Skills (70)
python10
terraform10
deep-learning10
terraform-module10
ml10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
terraform-provider10
aws10
entity9
deep-neural-networks9
parsing9
validation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jhole89/orbital
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 45 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 year
jhole89/aws-glue-sbt-quickstart
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Example of how to set SBT up for local development of AWS Glue Scripts
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
local-developmentloadtestingaws-gluegluesbt
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