Summary
Luke Kraus is a senior full-stack software engineer and technology leader with 9+ years of experience delivering scalable web and cloud-native solutions. He is currently a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Datadog, after progressing at PNC where he led six Centers of Excellence with 60+ engineers and built governance, CI/CD tooling, and API tooling for 1000+ developers. At PNC, he engineered a governance framework using Open Policy Agent with 60 automated controls and created a Jenkins deployment library enabling production changes in under an hour. His technical breadth spans Java, Spring Boot, Angular, AWS, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and modern DevOps practices, backed by a PMP and a Cornell Product Management certificate. He has shipped 50+ production Java Spring Boot APIs, led PNC’s Build to Manage initiative establishing SRE practices and 1000+ monitors, delivered a full-stack BIAN PoC shown to 11,000 delegates at SIBOS, and contributes to the Home Assistant open-source project. Described as a "jack of all trades" across tech stacks, Luke blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership and product sense, applying those strengths to empower developers at scale from Pennsylvania.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Product Management, Certificate, Product Management at Cornell University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
English