Summary
Lukas Braach is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Hamburg with 11 years of experience building cost-efficient, highly available cloud infrastructure and developer-friendly delivery pipelines. Currently at Gamelight, he manages systems serving 100k+ requests per minute and cut a $150k+/month AWS bill by over 65%, translating to more than €1M annual savings. He combines hands-on expertise in deployment automation, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability (DataDog) with an ML background used to enhance fraud detection to 99.1% accuracy. Lukas holds an MSc in Intelligent Adaptive Systems and blends research-led thinking with pragmatic engineering—favoring economical, low-maintenance solutions that empower product teams.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Intelligent Adaptive Systems, 1.39 (very good), Master of Science - MS, Intelligent Adaptive Systems, 1.39 (very good) at Universität Hamburg
Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik, 1.6 (good), Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik, 1.6 (good) at Fachhochschule Wedel