Lucas Killgore
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarLucas Killgore is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience focused on cloud infrastructure, high-performance compute, and developer tooling at Microsoft. He has a strong background in Azure DevOps and Azure Machine Learning infrastructure, contributing to widely used projects like the microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks repo where he improved reliability, security, and task automation. Prior to Microsoft he built large-scale, device-deployed systems at Nuance and Swype, including an encrypted database, concurrent messaging bus, and JNI integrations for a prediction engine shipped on hundreds of millions of devices. His career spans low-level embedded and real-time systems to cloud-native services, giving him a rare full-stack systems perspective. Based in Cary, North Carolina, he pairs production-grade engineering with practical security fixes and build/release automation expertise that materially improve CI/CD pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
azure-pipelines10
release-management10
build-automation10
yaml9
testing8
cicd8
nodejs7
powershell7
npm6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Mar 2017 - Mar 2020
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:79 commits, 134 PRs, 156 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Lucas's commits primarily revolve around modifications and improvements related to the Azure Pipelines tasks. Their work involved renaming tasks, refactoring code, and fixing vulnerabilities. They also updated the azure-pipelines-task-lib version, improving the reliability and functionality of the build and release processes. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to the installation of SSH keys, ensuring the security of the build environment.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
microsoft/vsts-cloudfoundry
Aug 2017 - Jan 2020
Azure DevOps Extension for Cloud Foundry
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 5 months
foundrydevopscloud-foundrytheiacloudfoundry
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