Luke Farnell
Principal Cloud Engineer at RLDatix
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLuke Farnell is a Principal Cloud Engineer based in Toronto with a decade of experience designing and operating global SaaS infrastructure for healthcare technology at RLDatix. He combines hands-on expertise in OSes, containers, networking, build systems and configuration management with people leadership—mentoring teams and driving upskilling across the organization. His work focuses on scalable, reliable cloud platforms that support multiple products and geographies to improve safety and efficiency in care delivery. An active open-source contributor, he’s extended HashiCorp projects like go-getter (adding S3/MinIO support and robust URL parsing) and improved Packer’s DigitalOcean integrations for snapshot transfers—demonstrating practical cloud-storage and image-build insights. Curious and methodical, he favors solving low-level infrastructure challenges that unlock faster, safer delivery for product teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Technology Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering Technology Computer Software Engineering at Centennial College
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Github Skills (24)
unit-testing10
digitalocean-api10
minio10
url-parsing10
go10
amazon-s310
cloud-storage10
aws-s310
s3-bucket10
cloud-infrastructure9
automation9
automations9
aws8
testing7
build-automation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 12 PRs, 85 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Luke contributed to the DigitalOcean integration within the Packer tool, focusing on features related to snapshot management and image transfer. Their work involved adding functionality for snapshot region transfers, including the implementation of waiting mechanisms for these operations. They also addressed code duplication and fixed spelling errors within the DigitalOcean builder, demonstrating an understanding of the project's architecture. Additionally, the user validated region inputs.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
hashicorp/go-getter
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Package for downloading things from a string URL using a variety of protocols.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Luke contributed to the `go-getter` library, focusing on extending its functionality for S3-compatible storage services, specifically MinIO. They implemented the ability to use MinIO and added unit tests for S3/MinIO URL parsing. They also addressed related issues like region handling and URL parsing, demonstrating a solid understanding of Go and cloud storage integration. The contributions involved modifying the code to handle different S3 URL formats and configuration parameters.
downloadinggolangdownloaderstringurl-parser
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