Luke Kysow
Principal Engineer at Google
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Kysow is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently shaping AI-driven cloud experiences at Google after a multi-year tenure advancing Consul into a service mesh at HashiCorp. He is co-creator and long-time maintainer of Atlantis, a widely used open-source tool for Terraform pull-request automation, and has deep hands-on experience in backend, DevOps, and Kubernetes integrations. Luke’s contributions span from refactoring core clients and modularizing codebases to implementing Consul features like namespaces and peer queries, demonstrating an ability to improve both developer UX and distributed systems internals. He has led product-facing documentation and Helm chart improvements that materially reduced onboarding friction for operators. Comfortable across full-stack engineering and infrastructure at scale, he also founded and led an InfraGraph team to build realtime graphs of infrastructure assets. Based in Canada, he blends pragmatic engineering with open-source leadership to deliver reliable, production-grade platforms.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (46)
service-mesh10
ruby-rails10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
mvc-architecture10
scripting10
rendering10
testing10
bash10
rails10
render10
terraform10
cicd10
ruby10
consul10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
runatlantis/atlantis
Feb 2018 - Aug 2021
Terraform Pull Request Automation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:55 releases, 63 reviews, 978 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Luke's commits focused on restructuring the codebase into modular packages and integrating with AWS services. They refactored the GitHub client, implemented unit tests, and refactored parts of the atlantis to include a config file for better deployment. They also handled merging the changes.
atlantisgolangdevopsgopull-request
hashicorp/consul-k8s
May 2019 - Oct 2022
First-class support for Consul Service Mesh on Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:607 reviews, 523 commits, 395 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on enhancing the Kubernetes integration for Consul service mesh. Their contributions involved adding features to the `server-acl-init` command to create and manage ACL tokens, along with the addition of new command "delete-completed-job" to clean up the jobs. They also implemented the support for including the service's name inside of the annotations and the ability to configure the resources requests and limits. Further, their contributions included fixes related to the controller and webhook.
meshhelmconsul-servicehelm-chartvault
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