Luke Ward

💼 Professional Experience

April 2025 to Present

Working on the Insights team to help customers better understand and optimize their cloud infrastructure.

Sept 2023 to April 2025

Designed and improved a vendor product enabling companies to create distributed applications that connect to the HPE NonStop machine.
Lead development of C, Java and Go code for modern Windows SDK increasing range of compatibility for user machines.
Deployed and managed critical cloud architecture using Pulumi, Docker, Jenkins, AWS EC2.
Lead development of updated build and release system, decreasing time to release by over 250%.
Participated in 24/7 on call system administration.

Summer 2023

Led automation of infrastructure within the Information Security organization using Pulumi, TypeScript & Python saving engineers 24-48 hours per request and delivering to customers up to 10 business days sooner.
Collaborated with a teammate to develop a Go REST API that streamlined cloud resource management as part of the automation efforts.
Developed monitoring solution to rapidly improve overall observability of computing resources within the organization.
Collaborated with distributed teams across the United States and China using mTLS, Asynchronous Computing, Grafana, and Jira.

Summer 2022

Collaborated with engineers and QA personnel to develop an internal facing test data service, improving feedback and exposure.
Enhanced user experience by implementing accessibility features, leading to a 300% increase in interactions by Data Scientists.
Led development of full stack solutions using Angular and Java Spring REST API.
Created custom MySQL queries, significantly improving application modularity and efficiency.
Deployed application on Azure Kubernetes AKS cluster and AWS using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.

2021 - 2022

Assisted students in Intro to Software Engineering with coursework, helping tutor and mentor multiple sections.
Hosted scheduled meetings to help students with homework and projects.
This role allowed me to acquire grading skills and improve in leadership and giving constructive feedback.

2016 - 2021

Supervised multiple lifeguards, counselors, and counselors-in-training at the waterfront.
Created and maintained a new safety standard compliant with new federal and state legislation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gained promotion to Waterfront Director based on superior performance as Counselor and Cabin Lead.

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Hosting services using Docker and LXC containers
Managing infrastructure with Proxmox Hypervisor, VPN, DNS, K3s, Nginx, Grafana, Prometheus, and Linux VMs