Felix Luciano

Software Engineer | Backend Infrastructure · Distributed Systems · Cloud Services

Seattle, WA

Backend software engineer building and operating large-scale production systems at Microsoft and AWS. At Microsoft, led a regional migration and production cutover for a Defender service processing approximately 3.5 billion protection samples daily. The cutover had zero service errors, and the migration reduced p50 latency by 26% and p90 latency by 7%. Previously built Amazon Aurora MySQL diagnostic tooling and operational automation that reduced mean time to resolution by 80%+.

Experience

Microsoft · Seattle, WA

Sep 2024 – Present

Software Engineer

Led migration of a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint service processing approximately 3.5 billion protection samples daily, deploying it in a new region and completing the production cutover with zero service errors
Reduced p50 service latency by 26% and p90 latency by 7% after the migration
Modernizing Defender services for Microsoft Cobalt/ARM and migrating them to Kubernetes to improve hardware portability, scalability, and deployment consistency
Cut build times by 50%+ and lowered portfolio costs by optimizing build pipelines and developer tooling

Amazon Web Services · Seattle, WA

Jun 2022 – May 2023

Software Development Engineer

Built diagnostic tooling for Amazon Aurora MySQL clusters that accelerated root-cause analysis of production incidents and reduced customer downtime
Automated operational workflows in Python, Bash, and SQL across multiple teams, reducing mean time to resolution by 80%+

ADP · Roseland, NJ

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

Software Engineer Intern

Built a Java user-management platform with Struts and Hibernate for the Data Exchange team, supporting onboarding for 1,000+ customers and improving developer workflows

Projects

Couch Kit

Open-source TypeScript framework for local multiplayer games; coordinates TV and mobile clients over WiFi and WebSockets and ships as a suite of npm packages.

TypeScript, React Native, WebSockets, npm

Faros

Full-stack geospatial app with a Go REST API, Turso database, and React client, deployed on Azure.

Go, SQL, REST API, Azure, Turso

Skills

Languages: Java, Python, C++, SQL, Go, C#, TypeScript, Bash, Rust
Backend & Infrastructure: Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Docker, REST APIs, WebSockets, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
Cloud & Databases: AWS, Azure, Amazon Aurora MySQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Turso

Education

New Jersey Institute of Technology · Newark, NJ

May 2022

B.S. in Computer Science