Summary
Luke Ollett is a senior engineer and technology leader with 11 years of experience architecting large-scale, concurrent server and mobile systems and currently serving as Senior Nerd Engineer Architect at Last Call Media. He has led engineering teams and built entire technology departments as CTO/Managing Director at startups like Varuno, TapThere, and Poindexter, translating business needs into robust cloud-native solutions. Luke’s hands-on background spans AWS infrastructure with Terraform, massive PostgreSQL and ETL pipelines using Airflow, and full-stack JavaScript/Next.js work, plus enterprise change management from his early IBM career. He’s comfortable negotiating with C-suite stakeholders and still boots up servers and teaches developers—the blend of CEO-level communication and deep technical craft that helps projects ship. A natural builder of teams and processes, he’s repeatedly scaled organizations and systems to handle millions of users and high-concurrency live media scenarios.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information and Computer Science; Networking and Distributed Systems, Bachelor of Science, Information and Computer Science; Networking and Distributed Systems at University of California, Irvine
Spanish