Luke Lavin
Senior Software Engineer, Data Systems
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Lavin is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in data systems with nine years of experience building low-latency, cloud-native services and ML-powered pipelines. Based in Chicago and educated at Purdue, he has driven production ML inference and audience-sizing systems at scale using Azure, Snowflake, PySpark, Java Spring Boot and Python frameworks. He’s a pragmatic technical lead who reduced latency by 540x for a core audience service, cut on-call incidents in half by standardizing event-driven pipelines, and helped convert research models into reliable MLOps deployments. Comfortable across backend, data engineering and NLP work, Luke also has a track record of mentoring juniors and shipping services that underpin eight- and nine-figure ad revenue streams. Notably, he blends hands-on coding with system design—owning TB-scale data assets while iterating quickly on inference and automation patterns.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (1)
machine-learning4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lukelavin/focus-app
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
lukelavin/Cluebase
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
A RESTful API for "Jeopardy!" games, contestants, and clues.
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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