Josh Lucas
Senior Software Engineer at Tigera
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJosh Lucas is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ottawa with a decade-plus career building robust C/C++ and Python systems for embedded Linux, networking, and compiler tooling. He has advanced networking and Kubernetes CNI expertise from contributing core features to the widely used Calico project and currently drives security and observability capabilities at Tigera. Previously at Cisco he productized LLVM-based instrumentation for hot-patching and diagnostics, authored related patents, and helped bring gNMI into IOS-XE—demonstrating comfort across low-level systems, cross-team standards work, and cloud-native ecosystems. Known for breaking complex problems into maintainable components, he combines pragmatic engineering with a history of mentorship and production-grade delivery.
3 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (10)
cni10
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
security9
plugin8
ebpf6
k8s5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/calico
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 25 commits, 25 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Josh contributed to the Calico project by implementing and modifying core features, including a new Pod annotation for assigning a fixed MAC address, and a mechanism for graceful termination of the Dikastes component. The changes also involved refactoring code for improved error handling and updating documentation. These contributions suggest the user is familiar with networking, Kubernetes CNI, and application policy within the Calico ecosystem.
multi-clustersecuritynetworkingsdnvirtual-network
Josh-Tigera/operator
Jul 2022 - Jan 2025
Kubernetes operator for installing Calico and Calico Enterprise
Contributions:160 pushes, 54 branches in 2 years 6 months
installingoperatorkubernetescalicokubernetes-operator
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.