Summary
Luke Emery is a Solutions Architect with a decade of experience shaping cloud-native transformations and extracting microservices from monolithic systems to support rapid acquisition and product diversification. Based in Atlantic, Iowa, he blends hands-on engineering (C#, .NET, JavaScript, Python) with architecture-level design across AWS and Azure, emphasizing IaC, serverless patterns, event sourcing, and scalable pipelines. At Orion he has led initiatives that reduced operational costs and established sustainable development practices, moving teams to testable, packaged components and cloud-native services. His background ranges from full-stack web development and OCR/ElasticSearch work to founding small software shops, giving him pragmatic product empathy alongside deep technical craft. Notably, he pairs practical ETL and streaming experience (Kafka, DynamoDB, Athena) with experience proving patterns in production rather than just greenfield designs.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Wayne State College
English