Luke Ness
Staff Software Engineer at Okta
Frisco, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Ness is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native, device-connected platforms and microservices, currently contributing at Okta from Frisco, Colorado. He has a strong track record at SmartThings and BrightAI building scalable connectivity, monitoring, and edge-distributed functionality while improving observability, security, and test coverage. Comfortable across AWS ECS/EKS deployments and service interfaces, he bridges product and engineering to define requirements and documentation for complex platform components. His background in physics and hands-on hardware prototyping (from university labs and early manufacturing roles) gives him a practical systems mindset that informs resilient, device-aware software architecture.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Bethel UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Apollo Senior High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (100)
smartapp10
tuya10
handlers10
api-client10
rest-client10
openapi-generator10
esp3210
rest-api10
openapi10
iot-application10
upnp10
tasmota10
hue10
smartthings10
api10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gausnes/SmartThingsPublic
Jun 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:58 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 9 months
SmartThingsCommunity/slack-nodejs-workshop
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 12 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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