Kaleb Luhman is a Senior Software Engineer based in Minneapolis with 10 years of experience building reliable backend systems and databases. He has led architecture and delivery at agencies and product companies—most recently at CarMax and previously as lead engineer for a Professional Services SaaS at Parallax—bringing strong .NET, SQL Server, and Azure expertise. Kaleb contributes to open-source infrastructure work, improving performance and reliability in the Marten .NET document DB and event store by optimizing daemon behavior and query paths. Known for translating complex requirements into robust, test-driven solutions, he pairs hands-on coding with client-facing leadership and a persistent curiosity for new technologies.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Senior at South Dakota State University
.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kaleb focused on improving the performance and reliability of the Marten document database and event store. Their contributions involved optimizing the event daemon by implementing early exits for batches with no changes and adding tests to prevent daemon stalls. They also refined query performance by updating the safe sequence finder to utilize indexing. Furthermore, the user addressed a projection order exception issue and re-enabled an existing test for document inclusion functionality, enhancing the system's stability and feature set.
Contributions:62 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 days
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