Luke Meyers is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with 13 years of experience designing and operating data-heavy, high-integrity back-end systems. He is fluent in Go, Java, C++, and SQL and has a track record of turning prototype pipelines into reliable, terabyte-scale production services—most recently leading Kafka, dbt, and Postgres ELT work and building resilient backfill strategies at SeatGeek. Luke consistently raises engineering standards through test-driven development, static analysis, and iterative refactoring while coaching teams to adopt sustainable patterns and faster CI. He’s comfortable across cloud-native stacks (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes) and has led costly migrations and cross-language rewrites that cut latency and operational burden. Known for challenging assumptions and simplifying complexity, he blends pragmatic delivery with a long-term view that reduces future friction.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Arts Computer Science Philosophy (double major), Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Arts Computer Science Philosophy (double major) at University of Washington
Exchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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