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.
10 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
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Github Skills (57)
convolutional-neural-networks10
python10
machine-learning10
recurrent-neural-networks10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
aws10
neural-network10
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
aws-glue8
json-document8
terraform-module8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jhole89/classifying-cancer
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
A Python-Tensorflow neural network for classifying cancer data
Contributions:40 commits, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
neural-networkpythontensorflowneural-netscancer
jhole89/orbital
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 45 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 year
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