Hi There, I'm Lucas Damler

About me

I'm a senior software engineer with 8 years of experience. I've spent most of my career working in fast passed collaborative environments leading highly skilled teams on expansive NLP and GenAI projects across the full development lifecycle. I've developed in on prem and cloud environments creating large scale, high throughput, low latency distributed systems and monoliths alike.

Education

M.S. Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · 2026
B.S. Computer Science Northern Illinois University · 2019
B.S. Psychology Northern Illinois University · 2019

Work history

Lead Engineer 1 · McMaster-Carr

March 2026 - October 2026

Principal Application Engineer · Discover Financial Services

January 2019 - March 2026

Motor Transportation Specialist · Illinois Army National Guard

April 2016 - December 2019

Computer Science Expertise and Interests

Distributed Systems
Cloud Computing
Graphics and Rendering
3D match
AI
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Fullstack Development
Data
GenAI
VertexAI
Claude Code
Java
Spring
Kotlin
Golang
NodeJS
Python
C/C++
C#
Rust
HTMX
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Vue
VitePress
WebGL2
PostgreSQL
BigQuery
MariaDB
MySQL
SnowSQL
NoSQL
Redis
MS SQL Server
Databases
Git
GitHub
GitLab
Jenkins
OCP
AWS
GCP
VMware
Docker
CI/CD
Pub/Sub
messaging
Kafka
Advanced Design
Data Structures and Algorithms
Automated Testing and Regression
Caching
Concurrency

Hobbies & Interests Outside Work

photography
working out
programming
nature walks

In my free time I like to workout, ride my motorcycle, go on photo walks, and try to befriend various species of corvids on those walks in attempt to raise an army of winged allies