Brian Luk
Software Engineer at Microsoft
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Luk is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and developer tooling across FinTech and cloud platforms, currently contributing to Azure Communication Services at Microsoft. He has a track record of delivering production features, test automation, and deployment pipelines from early-stage trading startups through large financial institutions like JPMorgan Chase. With an academic foundation in Operations Research (Cornell MEng) and dual undergraduate training in Computer Science and Political Science, he blends quantitative rigor with systems engineering. Previously he helped scale retail investing APIs at Trade It and worked on crypto and trading products at Voyager, reflecting deep domain experience in financial products and integrations. Brian is pursuing formal finance credentials (financial engineering coursework and planned CFA) which complements his engineering focus and signals a move toward finance-facing technical roles. He maintains a personal portfolio at thebrianluk.com that surfaces projects and further context beyond his corporate work.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Northfield Mount HermonBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Political Science at Brandeis University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
trading9
brokers9
azure-communication-services9
stock-trading9
azure9
api8
sdk8
finance8
azure-monitor-workbooks7
fintech7
probot7
nodejs6
ios6
javascript5
typescript4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tradingticket/NodeSampleApp
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Node sample app for the website
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 days
javascriptnodejsexpressnode
bluk16/funWithFuture
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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