Luke Bakken
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Spokane, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Bakken is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining distributed systems, particularly across the RabbitMQ ecosystem and Erlang/OTP stack. He ships production-quality code in diverse languages (Erlang, C, C#, Python, Go, Elixir) and has deep OS-level expertise on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, often debugging live customer environments. His open-source footprint includes substantive contributions to core RabbitMQ components, client libraries, and projects like relx, mint, and the official Erlang/OTP repo—demonstrating both back-end engineering and DevOps acumen. Luke pairs rigorous QA and test automation work with practical release engineering, improving cross-platform builds and TLS/HTTP integration in widely used libraries. Based in Spokane, he’s also an accomplished professional bassoonist and contrabassoonist, a background that surfaces in his meticulous, performance-oriented approach to software.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Music Performance General, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Music Performance General at Eastman School of MusicBachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at University of Rochester
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Github Skills (85)
dependency-management10
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http-api10
website-development10
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Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
rabbitmq/amqp091-go
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
An AMQP 0-9-1 Go client maintained by the RabbitMQ team. Originally by @streadway: `streadway/amqp`
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 69 reviews, 28 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Luke's contributions primarily focused on improving the AMQP 0-9-1 Go client. They implemented a Windows build and fixed various linting errors, enhancing code quality. Furthermore, the user added logging capabilities throughout the codebase to aid in debugging and monitoring. They also updated the examples.
golanggo-clientamqp-0-9-1amqprabbitmq
pika/pika
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Pure Python RabbitMQ/AMQP 0-9-1 client library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 32 reviews, 485 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Luke's commits primarily focus on implementing TLS/SSL support in the pure Python RabbitMQ/AMQP 0-9-1 client library. They updated example code, including adding and modifying TLS configuration to enable mutual authentication using certificates. The contributions involved changes to demonstrate secure communication by leveraging `pika.ConnectionParameters` and `ssl` library features, and integration with RabbitMQ configurations. The user also worked on ensuring that dispatch resource remains acquired in the code.
pythonrabbitmq-pythonclient-libraryamqp-0-9-1amqp
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