Lukas Drbal
Senior Software Engineer at Confluent
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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SeniorLukas Drbal is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient, large-scale distributed data systems and automation pipelines from Prague. He has hands-on expertise with streaming and big-data stacks, hardened by roles at Confluent, a site reliability stint at immerok, and designing Kerberos-secured Hadoop clusters automated with Ansible on AWS for MSD. Lukas emphasizes eliminating single points of failure, automating configuration (no SSH fiddling), and designing systems that tolerate network and machine failures while scaling with data growth. His background spans software architecture, SRE and freelance consulting, giving him both product-focused and infrastructure-first perspectives. Notably, he pairs deep operational instincts with pragmatic automation to make complex distributed systems reliably manageable in production.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (75)
tuya10
python10
stream-processing10
streaming10
sql10
golang10
batch10
data-mesh10
java10
zigbee10
iot-platform10
batch-processing10
beam9
big-data9
data-processing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
LesTR/homeassistant-minimalistic-area-card
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
A minimalistic area card with sensors and buttons.
Contributions:31 releases, 6 reviews, 270 PRs in 8 months
homeassistantlovelanceminimalist
LesTR/tuya-local
Oct 2022 - Dec 2024
Local support for Tuya devices in Home Assistant
Contributions:199 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 2 months
assistanttuyatuya-deviceshacshome-automation
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