Summary
Lorne Luo is a Data Fullstack Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of professional experience and over 15 years coding across popular languages, currently focused on Python. He combines deep data engineering and DevOps practice—building global IoT ETL pipelines, Airflow migrations, and automated AWS serverless services—with hands-on full-stack web development using Django, FastAPI and modern frontend stacks. A prolific hobbyist, he maintains 100+ GitHub repos and sustains 1k+ commits per year, producing hobby projects that range from automated YouTube video generation using generative AI tools to event-driven trading platforms. At Leighton O’Brien he modernized legacy systems, implemented CI/CD and monitoring for 80+ servers, and created automated QA duplication pipelines that accelerated delivery cycles. Now at Selfwealth and as an independent developer, he blends quantitative trading insights with production-grade data platforms, reflecting a rare mix of research-level rigor (PhD background) and relentless practical engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Software Engineering at Beihang University
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Hebei University of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Hunan Normal University
Chinese, English