# Luke Persola

> AI Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lukepersola

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Amotions AI
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, CA
• Architected, prototyped, and launched a LLM-based real time call assistant
• Led development of an LLM-based management training chatbot (including IC)
• Implemented a RAG system (LangChain, OpenAI embeddings, Pinecone)
• Collaborated with other leaders in developing and iterating on product direction
• Defined and documented engineering team process, led meetings
• Managed and mentored a team of junior developers

### Independent consulting @ (various)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, CA
Full stack web development (JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node, PostgreSQL)

### Data Science Fellow @ Metis
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA
Example project: ranked semantic search across Wikipedia biographies (cosine
distance, embeddings via spaCy, a k-d tree)

### Software Engineer @ Demandbase
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco
• Wrote SQL transforming terabytes of advertising data (Redshift)
• Implemented ETLs between our data warehouse, S3, caches, 3rd party APIs, etc.
• Owned an internal web app and proactively conducted user interviews to identify
and fix pain points, dramatically speeding up data entry tasks
• Fixed data bugs in our pipeline (Kinesis, Hadoop, Redshift)
• Visualized advertising metrics
• Led adoption of agile practices as our teams first scrum master
• Identified and eliminated duplicates in our job queuing system (Sidekiq)

### Software Engineer @ Perceptive Software
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco
Full stack web development (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL, RabbitMQ)

### Independent consulting @ (various)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA
Full stack web development (Ruby on Rails)


## Education
### App Academy

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Anthropology
Penn State University

### Great Valley High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lukepersola
- Website: http://www.lukepersola.com/
- Website: https://medium.com/@lukepersola
- Website: https://github.com/persola/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01