Tyler Lubeck
Data Reliability Engineer IV
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Lubeck is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in California with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale, real-time systems. He’s currently at Reddit after leading SRE and resilience efforts at Coffee Meets Bagel and SurveyMonkey, where he managed multi-datacenter Kafka, Consul, and routing infrastructure. Tyler combines hands-on backend engineering (strong Python/Django background) with infrastructure expertise—rebuilding CI, automating certificate and ACL management, and supporting thousands of active connections with zero downtime. He’s an active open-source contributor to notable projects like kafka-python, improving admin protocol support and test coverage to enhance Kafka compatibility. A former Tufts CS student and teacher’s assistant, he retains a passion for making useful apps and real-time APIs, and brings both mentorship and practical operational discipline to teams. An uncommon strength is his blend of product-minded backend work and deep SRE rigor—turning developer pain points into robust, automated solutions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Major: Computer Science / Minor: Entrepreneurial Leadership, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Major: Computer Science / Minor: Entrepreneurial Leadership at TuftsHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Brandon Senior High School
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Github Skills (18)
python10
apidoc10
kafka10
api10
apache-kafka10
protocol-buffers9
testing8
data-structure7
data-structures7
database6
django-forms6
docker6
django6
docker-compose6
javascript6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dpkp/kafka-python
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Python client for Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tyler focused on enhancing the `kafka-python` client, particularly concerning the admin protocol. They implemented updates to the admin protocol, including supporting new API versions for various requests and responses, while also implementing methods to convert Struct objects to pythonic objects and implementing __eq__ and __hash__ for ACL objects. The user's contributions included adding tests to ensure functionality and correctness. These changes likely improved compatibility and functionality of the client for interaction with Kafka clusters.
apache-kafkapythonkafka
TylerLubeck/battlebots
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 48 commits in 24 days
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