Summary
Luke Plewa is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building customer-facing and backend systems at scale, currently leading teams at Amazon on products like Amazon One, Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods, and Just Walk Out. He’s delivered measurable business impact—driving features that contributed to a 56% share of attributed sales and a $2.4M annual revenue lift—and designed the online enrollment flow for Amazon One. A hands-on technical leader, he mentors engineers, runs retrospectives and demos, and has performed hundreds of code and design reviews across Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, and cloud-native AWS stacks. His background spans full-stack, data pipelines, ML engineering and experimentation, informed by earlier work analyzing gameplay data for millions of students to validate learning outcomes. Outside of work he’s an avid Kaggle competitor and brings the same data-driven curiosity to hobbies like gardening, hockey, running, and home improvement.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Homestead High School