Luke Waters
Vice President Of Engineering at PHYND
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Waters is a data-focused engineering leader with 13 years of experience building scalable cloud data platforms and analytics organizations, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering in Seattle. He has a track record of re-architecting platforms for scale—driving 10x velocity improvements at USAFacts through Databricks, Airflow, validation frameworks, and real-time pipelines—and has led integrations of multiple acquired teams into cohesive engineering orgs. Comfortable shifting between hands-on performance engineering (notably contributions to EF Core performance benchmarking) and strategic leadership, he emphasizes observability, automation, and governance to reduce toil and increase reliability. Luke mentors engineers into leaders and aligns technical roadmaps with product and business priorities, bridging research and production by partnering on AI/ML initiatives like text-to-SQL and metadata generation. He excels at translating complex data problems into operational systems that enable enterprise analytics and decision-making.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Washington
English
Github Skills (10)
performance-testing10
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
entity-framework10
orm10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
database9
databases9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/efcore
Sep 2014 - Apr 2015
EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:50 commits, 33 PRs, 17 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Luke's contributions focused on performance testing and optimization of the Entity Framework Core project. They implemented microbenchmarks to measure the performance of various database operations such as inserting, updating, and querying data. The user also refactored the test structure and fixed build issues related to performance applications. Their work primarily involved C# and the .NET platform, with a focus on improving the efficiency of data access and object-relational mapping.
pococ-sharpschema-migrationsentity-frameworklinq
lukewaters/EntityFramework
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:108 pushes, 42 branches in 3 months
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