Steven Lu
About Steven Lu
Steven Lu is an Infrastructure Engineer with extensive experience in systems administration and metrics collection solutions. He has worked for notable organizations, including The New York Times, where he has contributed to various projects since 2011.
Current Role at The New York Times
Steven Lu currently serves as an Infrastructure Engineer at The New York Times, a position he has held since 2014. His role involves managing and optimizing the infrastructure to support the organization's operations. He also works as a Systems Administrator at the same organization since 2011. His responsibilities include ensuring system reliability and performance, which are critical for the publication's digital platforms.
Previous Experience in Engineering and Administration
Before joining The New York Times, Steven Lu worked as a System Administrator at LinkShare Corporation from 2009 to 2011. He was responsible for maintaining system operations and supporting various IT functions. Earlier in his career, he held the position of Project Leader at Polytechnic University for a brief period in 2007. He also worked as a QA Engineer at ShanDa Interactive Entertainment Ltd. from 2004 to 2006, where he contributed to quality assurance processes.
Education and Expertise in Electrical Engineering
Steven Lu studied at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. His studies spanned from 2006 to 2009, providing him with a solid foundation in engineering principles and practices that he applies in his current roles.
Innovative Solutions and Projects
Throughout his career, Steven Lu has developed several innovative solutions. He created a high-performance Graphite-based metrics collection solution capable of gathering approximately 1,000,000 metrics from various devices and applications. Additionally, he implemented a log aggregation and visualization solution that processes over 5TB of log data monthly from more than 5000 devices. His work with the Nagios monitoring system enhanced its capacity to monitor over 200,000 services and reduced health check latency.
Contributions to Monitoring and Event Management
Steven Lu has made significant contributions to monitoring and event management systems. He enhanced the Nagios monitoring system, which increased its capacity and efficiency. He also integrated PagerDuty into the infrastructure for improved event escalation and on-call scheduling, streamlining incident management processes.