Luke Ludwig
Director Of Engineering at HomeLight
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Ludwig is a seasoned software engineering leader with 17 years of experience building high-performing teams and scalable platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering at HomeLight in Minneapolis. He progressed from being the first engineer at SportsEngine—where his Ruby on Rails foundation helped grow the company from 1 to 500+ employees—to leading cross-functional organizations spanning development, platform operations, security, QA, and frontend. Luke blends hands-on technical depth (cloud infrastructure, incident response, database administration) with a people-first approach that emphasizes psychological safety, learning, and ownership. He has repeatedly scaled engineering practices and operational reliability across fast-growing products, with measurable impact on developer experience and system performance. His background in modeling and simulation at BAE Systems and an MS in Computer Science give him a strong systems-thinking perspective that informs decisions under pressure. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic strategist who balances long-term architecture with the day-to-day needs of shipping reliable software.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of MinnesotaBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of Minnesota-Morris
Github Skills (41)
slave8
affiliate7
reduction6
astronomy5
rails4
ruby4
api4
advertising4
python4
activerecord4
connection-pool3
aws3
database3
cli3
pgbadger3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Luke-Ludwig/DRAGONS
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
Data Reduction for Astronomy from Gemini Observatory North and South
Contributions:5 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
data-reductionpythonobservatorygemininorth
sportngin/rails_asset_packager
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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