Summary
Luke Albarracin is a data engineer in Chicago with 8 years of experience building reliable data pipelines and analytics systems using Python, Airflow, BigQuery, Dataform, Spark, and GCP. He brings a unique angle by combining a background in philosophy with software engineering to prioritize human-centered product development and thoughtful system design. At Relativity he led a cost-saving migration that removed Akka from a high-availability ingestion job, cutting over $100k in annual costs, and now contributes to financial analytics at Better Trucks. His skill set spans full-stack and cloud-native tooling—including Kubernetes, Azure, Django, and React—and he codes in multiple languages (Python, Scala, Clojure). An active portfolio and GitHub showcase practical projects and a steady commitment to shipping maintainable, production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign