Cory Lucas
Principal Engineer at American Express
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolCory Lucas is a Principal Engineer based in Atlanta with 13 years of experience building and modernizing web and desktop applications across Java and .NET stacks. He has led platform and architecture efforts at Kabbage and American Express, driving migrations to .NET Core, containerization on Kubernetes, Terraform-based infrastructure, and CI/CD practices that enabled multiple daily deployments. Equally comfortable in hands-on coding and technical leadership, he has delivered API platforms, white-label solutions, and automation that reduced release friction and operational toil. A pragmatic technologist, he pairs deep expertise in C#, Java, Spring, and WPF with a history of introducing PostgreSQL, distributed caching, and NoSQL prototypes into production environments. Colleagues rely on him for turning legacy systems into scalable, cloud-native services while mentoring teams through change.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science Emphasis in Software and Scientific Applications, Bachelors Computer Science Emphasis in Software and Scientific Applications at Tennessee Technological University
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Github Skills (127)
command-line-interface10
terraform10
hashicorp-vault10
hashicorp10
vault10
kubernetes10
graph10
aws-cli10
amazon10
terraform-provider10
aws10
dotnet9
sdk9
gcp9
terraform-module9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
coryflucas/terraform-provider-kubernetes
Aug 2018 - Aug 2024
Terraform Kubernetes provider
Contributions:13 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 1 month
providerkubernetesterraformterraform-providerkubernetes-provider
KabbageInc/platform-api-docs
Feb 2016 - May 2019
Documentation for the Kabbage Platform API
Contributions:28 PRs, 39 pushes, 38 branches in 3 years 3 months
apiapi-platform
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