Lucas Lu
Research Statement
DevOps & SRE Engineer with 6+ years managing multi-region Kubernetes clusters. Deep expertise in Terraform, GitOps (ArgoCD), Prometheus observability, and Linux kernel networking. Proven track record reducing operational toil and maintaining 99.99%+ SLA.
Education
Research & Professional Experience
- Architected multi-region Kubernetes clusters (300+ nodes, 2k+ pods), elevating platform uptime to 99.995% and lowering MTTR from 45m to 8m
- Enforced 100% Infrastructure as Code via Terraform & ArgoCD GitOps, reducing misconfiguration incidents by 80%
- Built centralized observability pipeline with Prometheus & VictoriaMetrics, cutting alert noise by 70%
- Optimized cloud spend by 34% through KEDA-driven event autoscaling and spot instance scheduling
- Standardized CI/CD pipelines across 60+ microservices using GitLab CI & Docker, speeding up build workflows by 55%
- Implemented container vulnerability scanning with Trivy and Alpine multi-stage builds, reducing average image size from 850MB to 120MB
Selected Projects & Open Source
Automated Kubernetes cluster health checker detecting OOMKilled, pod crashloops, and certificate expiration.
