Lutz Justen
Software Engineer at Google
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLutz Justen is a seasoned software engineer with a strong mathematical background and over 20 years of professional development experience, currently working on Chrome OS and managed devices at Google. He brings deep systems and graphics expertise from a decade as Lead Engine Programmer at Red 5 Studios, where he built large-scale tooling, rendering systems, and streaming/LOD architectures for an MMO shooter. His work spans low-level back-end and DevOps tasks—evidenced by contributions to google/cdc-file-transfer where he removed proprietary dependencies, added SSH/SCP support and a new CLI for asset streaming—and high-performance C++/multithreaded systems. Lutz pairs research-grade rigor from a PhD in mathematics with practical production engineering, having implemented signal and image-processing algorithms in academia as well. Based in Bavaria, he combines hands-on coding, toolchain design, and team leadership across both game and infrastructure domains.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at University of BremenDipl. Math., Mathmatics, Dipl. Math., Mathmatics at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
German, English
Github Skills (21)
filesystem10
c-language10
command-line-interface10
linux10
file-operations10
fileio10
command-line10
file-transfer10
cprogramming-language10
cli10
scripting9
networking9
port-forwarding9
shell9
script9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/cdc-file-transfer
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Tools for synching and streaming files from Windows to Linux
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:209 reviews, 59 commits, 110 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lutz primarily focused on improving the `cdc-file-transfer` toolset by removing GGP dependencies and refactoring the codebase to allow for SSH and SCP command overrides. They also implemented a new CLI client to start and stop asset streaming sessions. Furthermore, the user addressed several issues related to FUSE filesystem operations, including handling mount directory creation, path variable expansion, and compilation issues. They also added a workflow to create a release with built binaries.
windowslinuxstreamingdata-transfergossip
googlestadia/vsi-lldb
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:53 commits in 1 year 9 months
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