# Brent Luker

> Full Stack and Embedded Developer

Location: San Leandro, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brentluker

Full stack web developer for 3 years. Main frontend framework is React and Redux. Experience in backend work using Node.js, Express, and Koa. Database experience using MySQL and MongoDB.

Embedded development and IoT experience using single board computers such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi professionally. Developed cloud applications for in the field IoT devices. Have also done work with ARM microcontrollers both in education and for personal projects. 

Other skills include git version control and programming languages including Java, Python, and C++

Strong capacity to work both independently and collaboratively. Excellent communicator who can explain complex ideas.

## Work Experience
### Embedded Software and Full Stack Engineer @ Electriq Power
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Leandro, California, United States
• Used node.js, React with Electron app used to test Sierra Wireless IOT gateway. Improved manufacturing speed by 40%.
• Developed Python-based microservice to track IOT device versions. Used FastAPI and Celery, using Redis as message broker.
Created React app to view and schedule updates to devices.
• Developed microservice to manage partner OpenADR programs with TypeScript, Node.js and Express. Maintain
synchronous state with other services using gRPC and asynchronous state using GCP’s Pub/Sub service. Stored data in
PostgreSQL database. Deployments orchestrated with Kubernetes

### Full stack Web Developer @ Zoom
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States
• Developed backend systems in SpringBoot to handle emergency phone numbers, including a custom handler for suicide
prevention hotline 988, providing region-based responses and redirection to national services. Used Gradle to build code.
• Designed and implemented a Vue.js dashboard for admins to track user activity in Zoom, pulling data from a MySQL database.

### Lead Embedded Engineer and Full Stack Software @ Magnitude.io
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Built a website and Chrome extension to stream data from Arduino devices to computers for real-time visualization.
• Backend & Data Streaming: Developed data pipeline to stream sensor data from chrome extension to the React-Redux
client and to a Node.js server, which stored it in MongoDB. MongoDB data enabled users to look at prior session data.
• Frontend: Used React-Redux to make dynamic graphs to display sensor data as it was streamed or read from MongoDB.
• Infrastructure: Managed AWS instances using Terraform to handle server instances.
• Identified and solved design error for PCB designed for Raspberry Pi. Designed logic-level converter with Eagle PCB, worked
with manufacturers to get converter manufactured. Reduced rejects of product from 15% to less than 1%.
• Reduced compiled file size, RAM usage by ~10% for Arduino C++ code, in part by reducing code duplication using OOP.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### Berkeley City College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brent-luker

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Last updated: 2026-03-20