# Luke Ness

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: Frisco, Colorado, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lukeness

Test driven developer that iterates rapidly on well defined feedback cycles. Experienced with backend application development, event based architecture, connection management and developer operations. I've lead engineering teams to success by mentoring, contributing, and providing guidance from the start of a project to a state to a polished state ready for general availability used by millions of users and thousands of customers.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Okta
Jan 2022 – Present
Technical Lead - User Management for Auth0

• Improved team capacity by creating process and supporting distribution of projects to engineers.
• Reduced support rotation overhead by identifying, advocating and devising solutions to complex issues.
• Lead projects from zero to general release, providing capabilities used by thousands of customers and millions of users.
• Fixed scaling issues while reducing cost by providing greenfield instrumentation for serverless architecture.

### Staff Software Engineer @ BrightAI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Designed, developed and maintained services deployed to AWS ECS and EKS
• Distributed activity monitoring for connected devices
• Defined communication interface for device communication
• Lead and participated in technical documentation reviews
• Worked with product to define requirements for platform components

### Staff Software Engineer @ SmartThings
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Minneapolis
◦ Designed and implemented services to handle next generation of hub device connectivity
◦ Improved monitoring, tooling and test coverage of the SmartThings ecosystem 
◦ Worked with external teams to develop architecture and product facing documentation
◦ Helped grow team through mentorship, documentation, onboarding and presentations
◦ Expanded functionality distributed to SmartThings Edge

### Senior Software Engineer @ SmartThings
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
◦ Created microservices to facilitate migration off of the monolith
◦ Optimized hub command delivery handling improving scalability and resiliency
◦ Patched security holes in hub emitted message handling
◦ Improved modeling of Zigbee and Z-Wave specifications

### Software Engineer @ SmartThings
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
◦ Optimized marketplace backend handling significantly decreasing load time
◦ Patched security holes in sandbox exposed APIs for file storage
◦ Maintained monolith

### Associate Software Engineer @ SmartThings
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
◦ Integrated third party marketing automation service
◦ Created tooling for platform availability visualization

### Software Engineer @ RedBrick Health (now Virgin Pulse)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
◦ Created RESTful APIs with Scala and Spray
◦ Improved interactions with Mongo by identifying and optimizing slow operations 
◦ Maintained REST API integrations with third parties
◦ Identified important functionality that lacked sufficient testing and supplemented the existing tests

### Engineering Intern @ Inspire Medical Systems
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
◦ Manufactured Physician Programmers
◦ Tested Inspire Products
◦ Developed Manufacturing Processes

### Cleanroom Fabrication Intern @ National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
◦ Manufactured nanoplasmonic devices with various types of etching, lithography, and metal deposition
◦ Programmed electron beam lithography designs
◦ Presented Research

### Technical Aide @ 3M
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Maplewood
◦ Designed CAD files for flex L.E.D. circuits
◦ Prototyped circuits with wax printing and wet etching
◦ Worked as team member of a research group
◦ Manufactured lighting systems for industrial use

### Research Assistant - Nanotechnology Lab @ Bethel University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | St. Paul
◦ Programmed Arduino to control servo and RC motors 
◦ Designed and fabricated circuits
◦ Programmed a Raspberry Pi to control an Arduino 
◦ Designed experiments, and prototypes

### Teaching Assistant @ Bethel University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
◦ Taught classical physics and modern circuity concepts to students
◦ Directed students during lab sessions

### Administrative Assistant @ Bethel University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
◦ Updated server with information
◦ Maintained conversation with other departments and companies


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023

### Bachelor of Science in Physics
Bethel University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Bethel University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### High School Diploma
Apollo Senior High School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22