Lev Lafayette an High Performance Computing systems administrator and educator by vocation and an old-school RPG gamer for recreation, and collects degrees for fun and profit. This includes a BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy, and Sociology, and a Graduate Certificate in Adult and Higher Education, both from Murdoch University. In addition, he also has an MBA (Technology) and a Graduate Certificate Project Management graduate at the Chifley Business School, a MSc (Information Systems) from Salford University, a MHEd from the University of Otago, and a Master in Climate Change Science and Policy from the Victoria University of Wellington.

He works at the University of Melbourne as an high performance computing systems administrator and postgraduate trainer. Prior to that, he was in a similar role at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) for eight years. He has also worked for the Parliament of Victoria as a database administrator and trainer, and for East Timor's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as their ICT Advisor in their first year of independence. He served as president of Linux Users Victoria for four years, and as founding president of the Isocracy Network, the Victorian Secular Lobby, and the RPG Review Coooperative.