Luke Smith

Experience

• 2021 - 2025 4y : 0m

  Software Developer II @ AWS Security

  San Francisco CA -

  Achievements:

  • Architected automated agent validation platform using AWS, Python, and React, validating EDR agent versions across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Catching critical production bugs, eliminating 40+ hours of manual testing per release cycle, and preventing faulty releases to 100K+ production endpoints.
  • Scaled platform adoption to be the standard for new endpoint agent deployments. Through configurable test suites, role-based self-service UI, and hybrid cloud/physical infrastructure. This enabled accurate user environment validation, real-time resource monitoring, and automated reporting.
  • Identified inefficient endpoint online notification service querying a bloated data stream of 6M messages per hour from 100k+ endpoints. Developed stream processing platform using Kinesis, Lambda, and DynamoDB, reducing P80 delivery latency from 15 minutes to 3 seconds, infrastructure costs by 90% ($10K+ to <$1K monthly), third-party API usage by 50%, with a 10x reduction in messages.
  • Expanded endpoint online service usage by making it real time and including data teams wanted to use, and delivering it efficiently by implementing a content based Pub/Sub architecture.
  • Developed off boarding platform designed to protect corporate IP, while providing employee personal data access. Supported company wide reach through async workflows, automating agent-based retrieval, minimizing turn around time, and limiting IP exposure.
  • Implemented secure file handling pipeline with: automated IP filtering, manual review UI with file previews, role-based access controls, and comprehensive audit logging. Enabling compliant personal data release while emitting metrics on review times, request volumes, and denial rates.
  • Identified resource constraint that would halt development within 3 months, migrated IaC to AWS CDK nested Stacks reducing code complexity by 25% (total lines), and allowing the team to meet delivery dates.
  • Mentored 3 junior software and systems engineers on AWS best practices, Python development standards, and security tooling design, with all 3 promoted or transitioned to Software Developer within 18 months.
  • Provided technical leadership for adjacent security tooling team, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and security assessments on all of their services.

  • Python
  • AWS
  • Git
  • TypeScript
  • CrowdStrike
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Packer
  • Ansible
  • Go
• 2018 - 2021 2y : 6m

  Software Developer @ AWS Security

  San Luis Obispo CA -

  Achievements:

  • Migrated physical host network infrastructure to serverless AWS architecture, replacing ~200 physical hosts across ~100 locations with fixed-response ALBs deployed to 25 AWS regions, eliminating 90% of annual hosting costs reduced per sprint operational overhead.
  • Led maintenance and expansion of botnet-like network monitoring system, growing coverage from 3 to 7 security services and providing visibility into monitoring blind spots that detected weekly outages; delivered critical VPN endpoint health metrics during remote work transition enabling network team to maintain remote workforce stability.

  • Python
  • AWS
  • CrowdStrike
  • TypeScript
  • Git
• 2016 - 2017 1y : 3m

  Software Developer Intern @ Workday

  Dublin CA -

  Achievements:

  • Enhanced implementation of open-source language recognizer, ANTLR, used to define Workday’s Query Language and eventual data retrieval on Workday’s Platform.
  • Exposed REST-based Web Endpoints for allowing 3rd party systems to request data in support of Workday’s PaaS initiative.
  • Provided JavaScript front end to demonstrate REST Service API service capabilities.
  • All work followed standard software engineering practices such as documentation, code reviews and use of source control systems (VCS/Artifactory).

  • Java
  • VCS
• 2014 - 2014 0y : 3m

  Software Engineer in Test Intern @ Microsoft

  Seattle WA -

  Achievements:

  • As part of Windows Azure Active Directory Test team, I gained experience using MVC architecture pattern and front-end design.
  • My project was to complete an End to End application that would test the capabilities of Windows Azure. This involved planning, writing the specifications, and developing the application.

  • Active Directory