# Luke Cook

> Software Engineer, Seeking Opportunities

Location: Greater Syracuse-Auburn Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lukecook

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Datasembly
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
Responsibilities

- Build & maintain web scrapers for grocery domain data
- Implement architectural advancements to web scraping framework
- Reverse engineer site APIs; adapt to scraping framework
- React to bot detection; develop and apply obfuscation techniques
- Work with Product and Customer teams to convert data to actionable insights
- Lead domain-specific dictionary initiative

Projects

- Developed headless browsing framework in Scala using Playwright
	- Proposed, by me, to replace the existing framework written in Puppeteer / Javascript
	- Playwright on the JVM greatly reduced development and deployment complexity; no longer needed to maintain a cluster of headless workers, or a remote execution DSL
	- Enabled scraping of websites that required Javascript execution, had sufficiently complex login APIs, or employed encryption of API request information
	- Framework was developed to easily allow different headless browser libraries to be used
- Primary Developer who created & maintained scrapers for Amazon, Instacart, and Shipt
	- Some of the most complex data sources we collected from
	- Instacart was an easy avenue for collecting new banners, creating fast turn around for new customers
	- Instituted new code paradigms that others could leverage to make scrapers more legible, and stable

### Software Engineer @ Hyperfiddle
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Responsibilities

- Development on Full Stack Clojure (script), Datomic CRUD application framework
- Setup CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI and AWS ECR and ECS, configured in Terraform

Projects

- Formalized extensible algebra for Datomic statements
	- Algebra supported simplification of negating statments (eg. 1 + -1 = 0)
	- Frontend logic would submit new statements on change, and the state would self simplify
	- Datomic statements were proved to form an Algebraic Group
- Research and Development
	- Reactive streams for rendering in Clojurescript
	- Category theory-based programming in Clojure
	- Pattern Matching algorithms

### Applications Programmer II @ Cornell University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ithaca, NY
Responsibilities

- Improved backend of genomic data ETL application
- Created CSV file digest framework
- Developed end-to-end testing framework

Projects

- Worked on backend of genomic data ETL application
- Created CSV file digest framework
	- Provided a data file, and a descriptive aspect file, the application produces a stream tuples that would be committed to a database.
	- Aspects would be used to generate streams of cells; these streams would be aligned based on properties of each aspect
	- Written in Java; strong focus on an object-oriented design
- Developed framework for automated end-to-end testing; focused on composability, ease of use, and self-cleanup
	- Developed domain-specific scripting language to simplify semantic layer of test suit in 3 layers: Arrange/Act, Assert, and Cleanup
	- Was built in 3 separate components: A language backend (written in Clojure), a business logic middle layer (written in Java), and a testing logic script suite (written in custom syntax)
	- Cleanup ensured automatic test independence and idempotency; tests were often run on deployed production environments

### Application Developer @ Swiftwater Brewing
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Rochester, New York
Developed and deployed point of sale solution. Currently maintaining every and all computer related work.

### Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018


## Education
### Bachelors in Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22