Lukas Blakk is a Staff Technical Program Manager with 18 years of experience optimizing rapid release processes for mobile and packaged software, currently leading release efforts at Databricks after managing Snap鈥檚 Release team. He has a proven track record shrinking release cycles and scaling weekly releases for millions of users, having driven Pinterest from multi-week to weekly Android/iOS cadences and modernized Firefox鈥檚 release model at Mozilla. A hands-on former build & release engineer, Lukas blends deep automation and tooling experience (Buildbot, Jenkins, Python) with high-judgment release risk management and cross-functional coordination. He mentors and builds communities, running diversity-focused accelerator programs and serving on nonprofit boards to expand access to tech and open source. Based in Oakland, he continues to sharpen his Android development skills and often automates himself out of routine processes to enable faster, safer shipping. What motivates him is removing barriers so people traditionally excluded from tech can participate and thrive.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Women's Studies, Women's Studies at Concordia University
BSD Software Development, BSD Software Development at Seneca Polytechnic
Android for Engineers, Android for Engineers at CodePath
Website, assets, curriculum, and any other public resources for the Ascend Project (ascendproject.org)
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