Summary
David Lucas is a seasoned system architect and backend services engineer with 30+ years of software experience and 11 years in senior technical roles, currently shaping scalable REST and GraphQL APIs at Synergy while running his own consulting firm. He combines deep enterprise expertise—from banking and utilities to insurance and energy—with hands-on work in Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka and cloud-native deployments. As President of Lucas Software Engineering he has led product development, client relationships and training engagements for Fortune 100 firms, and he’s repeatedly modernized legacy systems into microservice and CI/CD-driven architectures. Known for mentoring teams and delivering high-performance, secure middleware, he brings a rare mix of practical systems engineering and long-term architectural vision rooted in early space- and defense-grade software work.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
AA Liberal Studies, AA Liberal Studies at University of Maine, Presque Isle, ME Campus
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Chapman University, Colorado Spring, CO Campus
Guyan Valley