Summary
Luke Patterson is a seasoned consultant and software engineer with 13 years of experience building and automating delivery pipelines and production systems across cloud and on-prem environments. Based in Kansas City, he has led infrastructure initiatives using Docker, Terraform, Jenkins/Bamboo, AWS, Azure, CoreOS and VMware, and helped modernize regulated healthcare and insurance applications for compliance and competitiveness. At Cerner he migrated thousands of legacy projects to open build systems, introduced automated testing, and contributed patches to multiple open-source tools—demonstrating a talent for reducing technical debt and improving developer workflows. His background includes hands-on projects from P2V migrations and SAN/network engineering to multi-container deployments and platform-specific apps (Heroku, Dokku), reflecting both breadth and depth. He pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic scripting and build automation, and is known for clear documentation and community engagement, including a multi-part local tech blog series.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering Technology at DeVry University