Luke Swithenbank

CTO

Bondi Beach, New South Wales, Australia13 yrs experience

Key Highlights

Proven leadership in engineering and DevOps practices.
Expertise in Site Reliability Engineering and cloud technologies.
Strong background in full-stack development across multiple languages.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and DevOps expert with strong Site Reliability Engineering capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Google Cloud Platform (gcp)TypescriptDevopsTeam LeadershipNode.jsCi/cdKubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringJenkinsPuppetPythonPhpC#Asp.net MvcTechnical SupportGolangEmbedded Systems

Other Skills

KotlinPostgreSQLPlatform ReliabilityAmazon EKSContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)GitCuelangRust (Programming Language)RustSumo LogiconcallAmazon Web Services (AWS)JavaRunDeckElixir

About

I am a hardworking individual with a need to constantly improve and the work ethic to do so. I believe that the fastest and most efficient way to learn is to apply the lessons immediately so this means always taking on new projects to help better my skills. Skills in... SRE practices and Telemetry: InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite + statsd, NewRelic, Datadog DevOps and deployment pipelines: Kubernetes with helm or kustomize or ksonnet, AWS and it's entire PaaS, Jenkins, Bazel, Docker, Terraform, Packer, Puppet Backend + Frontend development (Angular, React, Django, Phoenix, and custom http API servers). Experience in languages... Golang, Elixir, C#, Java, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, Puppet and bug fixes in Java, Python, Ruby, Kotlin, and PHP. Keen interest in Rust and Haskell and all things functional.

Experience

13 yrs

Total Experience

1 yr 5 mos

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Slate

2 roles

Head of Engineering

Promoted

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Hybrid

Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2025 – Dec 2025 · 2 mos · Hybrid

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)KotlinTypeScriptPostgreSQL

Dovetail

3 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2025 – Oct 2025 · 4 mos

As Engineering Manager for Dovetail’s Platform team, I lead a group of talented engineers focused on building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that powers our product and engineering organization. I’m responsible for enabling high developer velocity, ensuring platform reliability and scalability, and fostering a culture of operational excellence.
My role sits at the intersection of technical leadership and people development—balancing delivery, platform architecture decisions, and long-term vision with mentorship, career growth, and team wellbeing. We’re evolving toward a DevOps ownership model, and I’m actively guiding our transition to on-call ownership and service-level accountability across engineering.

Acting Engineering Manager

Mar 2025 – Jun 2025 · 3 mos

Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2024 – Mar 2025 · 9 mos

Node.jsAmazon EKSContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)GitCI/CD

Fl0

SRE Team Lead

Nov 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bondi, New South Wales, Australia

Amazon EKSContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)GitKubernetesCuelangRust (Programming Language)+2

Macquarie group

Site Reliabilty Engineering Team Lead

Sep 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

GitSumo LogiconcallSite Reliability Engineering

Elastic

Site Reliability Engineer II

May 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Sydney, Australia

JenkinsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)GitAmazon Web Services (AWS)Java+5

Expert360

Head of SRE

Sep 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Sydney, Australia

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)GitKubernetesElixirGolangHeroku+2

Freelancer.com

3 roles

Release Engineer

Feb 2017 – Sep 2017 · 7 mos

Managing and improving the Release Process for the Mobile Team. Improving the Software Development cycle through tooling. Tools used: Gradle, Jenkins, Bazel, Xcode and Fastlane. Teaching Test Driven Development and better QA practices.

JenkinsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)GitBazelXcodeGradle+2

Internal Tooling Team Lead

Mar 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

Monitoring the internal infrastructure and tooling for the software developers at Freelancer.com. Largely Devops as well as being on-call for certain parts of the stack.
Tools used: Puppet, Prometheus, Consul, NGINX, Jenkins, Rundeck, Terraform, Packer, Docker, and more. Often small bug fixes to Open Source Projects in the following languages: Ruby, Bash, Golang, Python, Javascript, and Java.

JenkinsGitPuppetPrometheusDockerTerraform+1

Full Stack Software Engineer

Sep 2015 – Mar 2016 · 6 mos

I helped to develop the Warrior Forum platform. This was mainly working with PHP, Python and Javascript.

GitPythonPHP

Ramp rfid solutions

2 roles

Systems Engineer

Jul 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

The main focus is on innovating new methods of gather logistical data for a variety of companies and then building the appropriate backend system to suite their needs. C# is the language of choice and RFID is the technology used. We have been working closely with Microsoft to build our products in the Azure cloud.

GitAngularJSC#ASP.NET MVCWindows ServerWindows IoT

Intern

Nov 2012 – Jul 2013 · 8 mos

Working to develop RFID solutions to multiple customers. Most of these solutions include adding hardware plugins into our current system, setting up a server and writing a frontend for that server. This also includes writing the requirements for the solution and a meeting those requirements with an elegant design. Each solution is different however, and my skills are applied as needed.

GitC#WindowsHardwareTechnical Support

Locamate

Intern

Feb 2013 – Jul 2013 · 5 mos · 10 stokes ave alexandria

I work on developing our Scanning Solution. This mainly includes Test-Driven Development using Google's Go Language (golang), and writing different features as needed.

GitGolangEmbedded Systems

Ericsson

Intern

Nov 2011 – Feb 2012 · 3 mos · Macquarie Park

I worked as an intern on the team consulting to Telstra on the implementation of the 4G network. My role involved analysis of the existing transmission system making recommendations for modification to optimise the 4G transmission capabilities. Part of my responsibility involved organising a team for field-work across Queensland and NSW.