luna@pawful:~$ whoami

Emily "Luna" Gurnee

north carolina, us | systems | devops | backend

Emily "Luna" Gurnee
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// whoami

I keep Linux servers alive for a living. I've been in Minecraft since it launched and turned it into a career of game infrastructure and backend work. I troubleshoot from application code down to the kernel, and I build tools out of productive laziness: if it pages me twice, I fix the reason. Trans girl, space nerd, happiest in a terminal.

// projects

luna@pawful:~$ ls projects/

universe

Single-binary game server orchestrator. Master and wrappers ship in one fat JAR, cluster peer to peer over Hazelcast, and expose a REST and WebSocket API. The same config deploys to screen, tmux, Docker, or Kubernetes.

  • kotlin
  • hazelcast
  • rest
  • websocket
universe.lunarlabs.devgithub

lunarshell

Linux server shell environment. Starship prompt, system-metrics MOTD, hardened SSH defaults, and a one-command installer for Ubuntu Server, EL8/9, and Arch.

  • bash
  • starship
  • ssh
github

voyager

Open-source deployment platform split across frontend, backend, and Discord API services.

  • typescript
  • discord api
github

// experience

Sona Interactive LLC

aug 2026 - present

# coo

Studio behind Clover Client.

Clover Client

feb 2026 - present

# software engineer, backend & rest api

Cross-platform Minecraft client. PostgreSQL, S3 with CloudFront, Discord OAuth. Shipped through private beta.

Darkless LTD

2024 - present

# director & lead devops

Bare-metal and VPS hosting. Ansible, Terraform, monitoring, security ops.

Scala Studios

2023 - present

# vp & co-director

Kubernetes game server infra, Kotlin and Java platform work, Velocity proxy coordination, JVM performance tuning.

LunarLabs LLC

2024 - present

# founder & coo

Refine Development

2023 - 2024

# developer

Premium Minecraft plugins.

JasmeowSystems

2023 - 2024

# systems administrator

Client Linux fleets. HetrixTools monitoring, UFW, IPTables, Fail2Ban, rclone backups.

// stack

os: linux (ubuntu, debian, arch)
infra: docker · k8s · lxc · ansible · terraform
langs: kotlin · java · typescript · go · rust · bash · python
data: postgres · mongo · redis
net: dns · firewalls · nginx · caddy · tailscale
watch: prometheus · grafana · influxdb

// contact