Luke Youngblood is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over a decade of experience building cloud, fintech, and blockchain systems from the infrastructure layer to product. As CEO and founder of Lunar Labs and creator of Moonwell.fi, he’s combining AI agents, stablecoins, and open lending primitives to build an open financial system in the Web3 era. Previously a senior staff engineer at Coinbase, he led staking products across Ethereum, Cosmos, Tezos, and Algorand, and before that architected large-scale hybrid cloud solutions at AWS and Fortune 5 McKesson projects. He brings rare end-to-end expertise spanning data center engineering, cloud architecture, and crypto-native product design, plus hands-on ops experience dating back to Sun and Solaris-era systems. Based in the Bay Area, Luke blends startup grit with enterprise-grade reliability and a longtime knack for turning complex distributed systems into production-ready services.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Solaris Certified System Administrator, Solaris Certified System Administrator at Solaris Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
Netapp Certified Data Management Administrator SAN/Storage, Netapp Certified Data Management Administrator SAN/Storage at NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA)
VMware Certified Professional Virtualization, VMware Certified Professional Virtualization at VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Computer Science, Computer Science at Utah Valley University
Sun Systems Engineer SSE III, Sun Systems Engineer SSE III at Sun Microsystems
Cloudformation scripts for deploying public nodes on AWS. Used along with tezos-updater and node-docker repos.
Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 months
deployingdocker-nodenodesdockerupdater
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