Hi, I'm Lucas Laurent 👋

Software Engineer · Backend & Cloud Infrastructure

🎓 Computer-science & cybersecurity engineer, graduate of Télécom Nancy
⚙️ I design and ship production systems end to end — Java/Micronaut backends, Kubernetes/Terraform platforms, Next.js frontends
🌱 Currently going deeper on Go, service meshes and platform engineering
📮 Reach me at [email protected]

🃏 Featured project — Barbu

Barbu — online multiplayer card game (2–10 players), built end to end and self-hosted on a production Kubernetes cluster. My platform-engineering showcase.

Infra — Hetzner k3s · 100% Terraform IaC · ArgoCD GitOps · HA control-plane + node autoscaler · Linkerd mTLS · KEDA · chaos & k6 load tests · Prometheus/Grafana
Backend — Java 21 · Micronaut · authoritative WebSocket · GraalVM native · Redis-externalized state
Frontend — Next.js 16 / React 19 · code-first OpenAPI contract (typecheck breaks on drift)

Repos: barbu-server · barbu-web · barbu-deploy · barbu-actions — more on my portfolio