Michael Lorant
Senior Systems Engineer at Fairfax Media
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Lorant is a Senior Systems Engineer with over two decades of experience focused on UNIX/Linux infrastructure, automation and cloud-native design, currently operating and scaling high-availability sites for major Australian publishers. He drives Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices using Puppet, Ruby and AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch) and has built fully puppetized, autoscaling systems and CDN/DNS architectures for hundreds of zones. Comfortable across the stack, he blends systems engineering with hands-on development—creating RESTful web apps, frontend features and self-service tools to eliminate manual toil. A strong troubleshooter, he regularly converts operational pain points into durable automated solutions and has a history of solo-building production infrastructure for smaller sites. He contributes to open-source tooling for terminal UI (notably fixes and refactors in the popular lipgloss project), demonstrating attention to maintainability and user-facing polish. Based in Sydney, he continually teaches himself new languages and frameworks to push the boundaries of what a UNIX systems engineer can deliver.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Sydney Grammar SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Macquarie University
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Github Skills (11)
styles10
go10
layout10
cli10
testing9
code-formatting9
refactoring9
format-table9
formatting9
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
charmbracelet/lipgloss
Dec 2022 - Jun 2024
Style definitions for nice terminal layouts 👄
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 8 PRs, 44 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `lipgloss` library, a Go-based library for styling terminal layouts. They addressed several issues, including padding and margin-related bugs, refactored padding functions for better code reusability, and fixed a truncation issue related to ANSI codes within table cells. Additionally, the user performed code formatting using `gofumpt` and upgraded dependencies to the latest versions, improving overall code quality and project maintainability. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the library's functionality, appearance, and maintainability.
golanglayoutsstylecsslayout
ffxblue/ingress
Apr 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
golangingresskubernetescontrollers
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