Cody Lucas

I’ve spent 9+ years building and scaling Azure-first platforms—from foundational C#/.NET services at Microsoft to high-scale Node.js microservices at Blackline, and now owning platform engineering end-to-end at WayStar. The platforms I build handle over 6 billion annual healthcare payment transactions with strict compliance requirements.

I specialize in Azure-native cloud architecture, Node.js microservices at scale, and infrastructure-as-code that engineering teams can depend on. At WayStar, my focus on treating platform reliability and developer experience as first-class problems helped deliver a 30% reduction in monthly Azure spend and 70% faster prior authorization submissions.

Across roles, I’ve led architecture direction, delivered standardized platform capabilities across multiple squads, and raised the bar on observability, performance, and CI/CD safety. I’ve built multi-region AKS platform patterns with GitOps (ArgoCD/Helm), event-driven processing using Azure Service Bus, and reproducible workflows via Terraform and Azure Bicep.

I’m at my best setting technical direction and mentoring engineers to own their systems. I enjoy building “quietly enabling” platforms that reduce incidents, improve throughput, and make it easier for teams to ship secure, compliant services—fast.