Donald Lutz

Donald Lutz has a solid work history as a software architect and engineer. Their most recent position was as a Senior Cloud and Software Architect at Taos, starting in October 2021. Prior to that, they worked as a Lead Azure Architect at The Greenbrier Companies from May 2020 to October 2021. Donald also has experience as an Enterprise Architect at Transamerica from September 2019 to January 2020, and as a Principal Software Architect at Faction, Inc. from August 2018 to September 2019. Earlier in their career, Donald held various senior roles such as Director of Software Engineering at Flexential from October 2016 to August 2018, and CTO/Director of Software Engineering/Solutions Architect at Technetronic Solutions, Inc. from June 2002 to October 2016. Donald has also worked as a Principal Software Architect at Latis Networks from December 2000 to June 2002, and as an NMS R&D Architect at Virtela Technology Services Incorporated from February 2000 to December 2000. Donald's earlier positions include Chief Technologist at Data Transport Solutions from February 1999 to July 2000, and Principal Software Architect at BoldTech Systems from July 1996 to February 1999.

Donald Lutz is a professional who has pursued various educational and certification opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills. Donald attended Hampshire College, where they received an unspecified degree or field of study. Additionally, Donald has obtained several certifications, including the Hybrid Cloud Knowledge Leader, IBM Agile Explorer, and IBM Garage Foundation certifications from IBM in July 2023. In October 2022, they completed the GitOps Foundations course offered by LinkedIn. Furthermore, Donald has completed numerous LinkedIn courses, such as Software Architecture: Breaking a Monolith into Microservices, Software Architecture: Domain-Driven Design, AWS Infrastructure as Code for Software Developers, AWS: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation, DevOps Foundations: Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration, Developing CI/CD Solutions with Azure DevOps, Docker for Developers, Kubernetes: GitOps with ArgoCD, Kubernetes: Package Management with Helm, Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers, Learning Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS). Lastly, they completed the LFS169: Introduction to GitOps course offered by The Linux Foundation in August 2022.