Luke Swithenbank
Founder & Fractional CTO at Ridgeline Studios
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolLuke Swithenbank is a founder and fractional CTO with 11 years of experience building reliable, production-grade platforms and leading AI adoption for seed to Series A startups. He combines deep SRE and platform chops—from first SRE hire at Macquarie to deployment infrastructure at Elastic—with hands-on engineering work (notably contributions to Prometheus and Telegraf plugins) to keep code health and AI strategy aligned. Luke’s approach is pragmatic: he embeds technical leadership, AI implementation, and platform foundations into a single engagement so tradeoffs get made, not ignored. He has led platform teams that introduced safe AI tooling across engineering while candidly recognising AI’s limits in monorepos and legacy structures. Based in Sydney, he’s comfortable operating without positional authority to get the right people in the right rooms—an often overlooked lever for systemic reliability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Engineering with honors, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science, Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Engineering with honors, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at University of New South WalesSt. Aloysius College
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Github Skills (19)
puppeteer10
puppet10
telegraf10
configuration-management10
http10
automation10
infrastructure10
go10
prometheus10
systemd10
automations10
devops10
monitoring9
dockers9
linux9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-prometheus
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Puppet module for prometheus
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on enhancing the Prometheus alertmanager module by adding and updating configurations and supporting integrations. The commits show modifications to configuration files, parameter adjustments, and the implementation of a generic daemon service. The work included adding new exporters like Statsd and Mysqld, along with related configurations. Moreover, they made changes to systemd files and other supporting resources to ensure the proper operation of services within the project.
linux-puppet-modulepuppet-moduleprometheuspuppetarchlinux-puppet-module
influxdata/telegraf
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the `http_response` plugin, enhancing its functionality. Their work included adding the ability to parse HTTP headers, incorporating an option to include a request body, and implementing the ability to follow redirects. They also refactored the `all.go` file and made formatting updates.
agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf
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