Summary
Luke Michals is a software engineer with nine years of experience building polished, data-driven web products that bridge design and engineering, with deep hands-on expertise in React, GraphQL and D3. His career spans aerospace and defense-grade systems engineering to large-scale consumer platforms at Amazon and Procore, where he translated complex domain requirements into interactive visualizations and developer-friendly tooling. At Booz Allen he led transitions to modern front-end stacks and built 3D model viewers and TensorFlow-based object detection demos, demonstrating a knack for applying ML and 3D graphics to user-facing problems. Now at Hadrian, he continues to focus on shipping scalable, maintainable front-end experiences while drawing on a mechanical engineering foundation (USC MS, UIUC BS) that informs pragmatic system design. Outside of code he speaks locally on React and has been featured in JavaScript Weekly, and — less obvious — he’s equally proud of crafting an excellent breakfast burrito.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Product Development Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Product Development Engineering at University of Southern California
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign