Luka Stout
Site Reliability Engineer at Booking.com
Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLuka Stout is a pragmatic Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience bridging data science and software engineering to improve how businesses communicate with customers. Currently at Booking.com after building ML-powered communication systems at MessageBird, he focuses on observability, CI/CD and testing improvements that accelerate team delivery—once cutting pipeline time by 75%. Trained as an AI specialist (MSc) and experienced across data roles, Luka brings deep Python and Go expertise, plus hands-on work with Kubernetes, cloud platforms and low-data ML models. He’s known for turning analytic insights and ETL work into production-grade systems and for helping colleagues “get shit done faster” through practical tooling and process changes. An engineer at heart, he occasionally experiments with Julia and Rust, reflecting a curiosity for better-performing tools beyond his day-to-day stack.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at VU University AmsterdamMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (22)
data-science9
gitlab-ci9
pandas9
manipulation9
python9
sdk9
data-analysis9
frame9
data-structures9
gitlab8
dataframes8
data-manipulation8
gitlab-api8
golang7
marching-cubes6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
finde/PyClick
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:80 commits, 1 PR, 59 pushes in 1 month
lstout/Large-Softbot-Simulation
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:38 pushes in 7 months
robot-simulationroboticspythonsimulationrobot
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