Luke Ward

Professional Experience

11/2025 - Present

Architected and shipped multi-VCS integration for Pulumi Cloud, enabling automated deployment pipelines, PR previews, and AI-powered change summaries across GitHub, GitHub Enterprise Server, Azure DevOps, and GitLab, serving thousands of organizations.
Built AI-assisted policy remediation that auto-generates pull requests to fix compliance violations (Pulumi Neo).
Extended GitHub App integration to support multi-organization deployments, adopted by thousands of organizations.

04/2025 - 11/2025

Drove 150%+ increase in enterprise policy usage by architecting a Policy Management refresh and deploying new out-of-the-box Policy Packs.
Built multi-cloud compliance enforcement covering 5 frameworks (CIS, NIST, PCI DSS, HITRUST, Pulumi Best Practices) across AWS, Azure, and GCP, reducing policy setup from months to minutes and finding millions of compliance violations for hundreds of enterprise organizations.
Engineered GCP scanning capabilities to evaluate millions of resources, delivering actionable multi-cloud insights.
Built fine-grained access controls for policy management, enabling role-based compliance enforcement for thousands of enterprise-tier organizations managing millions of cloud resources.

09/2023 - 04/2025

Designed and improved a vendor product enabling companies to create distributed applications that connect to the HPE NonStop machine.
Lead development of C, Java and Go code for modern Windows SDK increasing range of compatibility for user machines.
Deployed and managed critical cloud architecture using Pulumi, Docker, Jenkins, AWS EC2.
Lead development of updated build and release system, decreasing time to release by over 250%.
Participated in 24/7 on call system administration.

06/2023 - 08/2023

Led automation of infrastructure within the Information Security organization using Pulumi, TypeScript & Python saving engineers 24-48 hours per request and delivering to customers up to 10 business days sooner.
Collaborated with a teammate to develop a Go REST API that streamlined cloud resource management as part of the automation efforts.
Developed monitoring solution to rapidly improve overall observability of computing resources within the organization.
Collaborated with distributed teams across the United States and China using mTLS, Asynchronous Computing, Grafana, and Jira.

06/2022 - 08/2022

Collaborated with engineers and QA personnel to develop an internal facing test data service, improving feedback and exposure.
Enhanced user experience by implementing accessibility features, leading to a 300% increase in interactions by Data Scientists.
Led development of full stack solutions using Angular and Java Spring REST API.
Created custom MySQL queries, significantly improving application modularity and efficiency.
Deployed application on Azure Kubernetes AKS cluster and AWS using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.

2021 - 2022

Assisted students in Intro to Software Engineering with coursework, helping tutor and mentor multiple sections.
Hosted scheduled meetings to help students with homework and projects.
This role allowed me to acquire grading skills and improve in leadership and giving constructive feedback.

2016 - 2021

Supervised multiple lifeguards, counselors, and counselors-in-training at the waterfront.
Created and maintained a new safety standard compliant with new federal and state legislation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gained promotion to Waterfront Director based on superior performance as Counselor and Cabin Lead.

Check out my projects page to see all of my work!

Hosting services using Docker and LXC containers
Managing infrastructure with Proxmox Hypervisor, VPN, DNS, K3s, Nginx, Grafana, Prometheus, and Linux VMs with a configured reverse proxy for service routing
Running a local NAS for network storage and a PostgreSQL instance for personal projects
Built a private access layer with AdGuard Home, WireGuard, and Nginx Proxy Manager for internal DNS, secure remote access, and hostname-based routing with wildcard TLS