Lukas Prettenthaler
Chief Architect at LeoVegas Group
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Prettenthaler is a Chief Architect with 12+ years of experience building scalable, automated engineering organizations across gaming and betting industries, currently leading architecture at LeoVegas Group. He blends hands-on backend development and QA expertise—evidenced by contributions to the popular Vert.x reactive JVM toolkit—with a strong commitment to Clean Architecture, Clean Code and design thinking. As a former CTO and founder, he combines entrepreneurial pragmatism with enterprise-grade governance, driving Agile transformation and highly automated teams. Lukas thrives in leadership and coaching roles, mentoring engineers while still rolling up his sleeves on technical challenges. Based in Vienna, he brings a rare mix of operational, product and low-level integration experience that helps translate business needs into resilient, testable systems.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Sportwissenschaften - Management, Sportwissenschaften - Management at Universität WienInformationstechnologie und Telekommunikation, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation at Fachhochschul-Studiengänge Campus WienWirtschaftsinformatik, Wirtschaftsinformatik at TU Wien
Github Skills (13)
javas10
vertx10
reactive10
java10
concurrency10
testing10
jvm9
event-loop9
test-framework9
non-blocking8
high-performance8
nio7
http7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-vertx/vert.x
Jul 2017 - Feb 2022
Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 15 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lukas contributed to the Vert.x framework by implementing new features related to cluster configuration, specifically allowing for overriding cluster host and port settings. They wrote comprehensive tests to validate the functionality of these new configurations, covering scenarios using properties and command-line arguments, including overriding public host and port. Furthermore, the user fixed logging issues, adding more information to the logs for easier debugging and added YAML support for MIME types.
non-blockingconcurrencytool-kitevent-loophttp2
NoEnv/docker-openjdk
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:55 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 6 years 2 months
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