About

Luke Olbrish is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with over 18 years of relevant experience in the field. He is a solution provider for end-user products as well as support technology, using a broad range of tools to produce results. Luke is comfortable with application development on back-ends as well as front-ends and usually doubles as his own project manager. He can produce a plug-in to speed up a company's development workflow one day and work on an end-user release of an application the next. Currently, Luke is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Zynga, where he is responsible for all aspects of stability and infrastructure to keep a highly profitable game running. His work spans the creation and refactoring of infrastructure, tuning systems for high availability and minimal downtime, detecting bad releases, debugging programming issues in releases, responding and fixing live issues, and generally being trusted to make high-pressure decisions to maintain the revenue stream. He has successfully tuned systems to avoid cascading failures and created server images and containers for the game and services. Luke is also managing the alerting and playbooks needed for SRE to respond to live issues in order to minimize the escalations to the game team. In his past roles, Luke has worked as a Senior Software and DevOps Engineer at Populus Group, where he was responsible for software engineering and datacenter operations for a large ISP. He has also worked as a Hiker at Pacific Crest Trail, where he developed planning, time management, mental fortitude, and persistence skills. Luke has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the same institution. He has a diverse tech stack that includes AWS, infra, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Backend, Ansible, Puppet, Spark, ECS, SRE, Java, PHP, DevOps, Cassandra, Kafka, Integration, and Scala. Luke is only interested in opportunities inside Portland or that are mostly remote due to personal reasons.