Luke Kelly
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Kelly is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms at Microsoft. He designs secure, resilient tooling—most recently leading a team to implement a JIT SSH certificate-based debugging system integrated with K8s CRDs and custom RBAC to manage millions of cores globally. His work spans incident response, cross-team platform fixes, IPv6 enablement for government contracts, and cluster health ownership across thousands of clusters, demonstrating both technical depth and operational leadership. A former Marine Corps team leader, he brings disciplined leadership, risk management, and mentorship to engineering teams. He’s completing a Computer Engineering degree at the University of Washington with strong academic performance, and outside work he balances family life while continuing to teach and coach others in CS. An ability to translate high-pressure mission requirements into production-safe, auditable systems is a distinguishing strength.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.85, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.85 at University of WashingtonAssociate's of Science, Computer Science, 3.98, Associate's of Science, Computer Science, 3.98 at North Seattle College
Github Skills (17)
intune9
microsoft-identity5
ata3
rights3
rms2
microsoft2
mobility2
identity-manager2
cybersecurity1
threat-hunting1
microsoft-azure1
identity-management1
analytics1
french1
identity1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/IntuneDocs.de-de
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Public repository for Microsoft Intune documentation in German(de-de)
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 5 days
intune
MicrosoftDocs/IntuneDocs.ru-ru
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Public repository for Microsoft Intune documentation in Russian (ru-ru).
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 5 days
intune
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