Greg Lutostanski

Work Experience

Python, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, Rust, Bash, Docker, k8s, Balena.io, AWS, Git, JIRA, GitHub
Bootstrap a productive development team in Austin with only remote support from the wider company
Manage, support, and mentor international team of 10 developers across full-stack and remote IoT devices
Lead team from an unreleased MVP of our core product through first pilot customers and commercial releases
Drive completion of Germany’s first vehicle to grid integration providing Frequency Control Reserve
Architect, plan, and lead development for a microgrid real-time power distribution network of EVs and renewables
Responsible for uptime and improvements of production system serving 25 Megawatts to European power grid
Recruit, hire, on-board, set goals, promote, provide feedback, and manage team through re-organizations
Facilitate continuous improvement of the team’s iterative workflow using Agile techniques and ceremonies
Promote healthy dev practices when needed including pair-programming, code-reviews, CI/CD, and training dojos

Work across teams and products to identify gaps and align on common tooling/infrastructure to solve issues
Implement BDD testing combining our edge-node and cloud code in CI and successfully handover to teams
Reduce recurring cost of our AWS bill by 30% by combining services, right-sizing, and reserving instances
Drive migration from unsupported hardware and codebase to a modern platform shared across our products

Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Bash, AngularJS 1.x, d3.js, Jenkins, lxd, Juju/MAAS, Git/bzr, GitHub/launchpad.net
Iteratively designed and produced full-stack dashboard including database models, REST API, and front-end
Created and maintained flexible REST client that works on any Tastypie endpoints with schema discovery
Developed hands-off monthly reporting system converting highly-dimensional data into customer-facing PDFs
Led team’s DevOps infrastructure automation and documentation for push-button deploys and upgrades
Created and collaborated on cross-team open source tools for log collection, regression analysis, and testing
Triaged, debugged, and replicated complex bugs in deployments of OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Hadoop

Routinely developed and maintained test framework, implemented test suites, and architected test plans
Chiefly responsible for stress testing and application benchmark regression for Linux portion of SoC
Communicated directly with developers and hardware engineers to debug and resolve uncovered defects
Represented the company as an advising member of the Xen Project Test Framework Working Group

Relevant courses: Distributed Computing, Communication Networks, Operating Systems
Undergraduate Thesis: Designed load-balancer for TCP connections with guaranteed fault tolerance which powers-off back-end servers based on demand reducing electricity consumption 30%

Ethereum, Solidity, IOTA, Node.js, Angular, bash
Created and presented proof-of-concept vendor-agnostic system allowing vehicles automatically discover, communicate, and pay for charging and parking

R, Javascript, HTML/CSS
Taught minority and low-income high school students how to process data sets and create websites

Creating and growing high performing teams that release software and hardware products
Proficient with Python, shell scripting, Rust, JavaScript, AWS, DevOps, Linux sysadmin, container technologies
Well versed with common practices: code reviews, debugging, automation, bugtracking, releasing, agile
Familiar with concurrent program design (threading/locking, multiprocess/IPC, async/promises)
Adept at managing large cluster (hundreds) of machines via automatic deployment
Previously used Go, Java, Perl, MATLAB, C, C++, Lua, x86 assembly, Haskell