Resume · San Francisco Bay Area
James Lukanta
AI Product and Platform Engineer
Profile
Engineer and founder working across AI-assisted products, developer experience, native platforms, and workflow systems. I turn ambiguous product and engineering problems into practical systems, with experience in platform architecture, technical leadership, and hands-on development.
Experience
Founder / Engineer - Tracecove
April 2026 - Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Lead product direction and engineering for AI-assisted products and workflow systems.
- Build Health Story to organize symptom history into useful context for medical visits.
- Build Cove to turn design and product inputs into specifications and engineering plans.
Senior Engineer, Native Platform Engineering - Credit Karma
January 2017 - March 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Tech lead for the Embedded Web Apps platform, spanning architecture, developer experience, and cross-platform adoption.
- Led native platform observability; reduced false-positive alerts from approximately 40 per week to near zero.
- Built a cross-platform KeyValueStore, local-development tooling, and an MCP-based documentation discovery tool.
- Contributed expertise in native app boot flow, debugging, and platform architecture.
Founder / Engineer - Big Canvas
February 2013 - December 2016
- Co-founded a real-time collaborative drawing platform that reached 31,000 users and approximately 1,000 daily active users.
- Led client and server engineering, including drawing, collaboration, chat, rendering, caching, moderation, and infrastructure.
Software Engineer (Contract) - Pineapple Games
February 2015 - June 2015 | Vancouver
- Prototyped gameplay systems, tutorials, and product experiments using Objective-C and Cocos2d.
Founder / Engineer - BitNapkin
January 2012 - January 2013 | Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area
- Built a real-time collaborative whiteboard with shared editing and voice communication.
Education
University of Waterloo
BSE, Software Engineering Honours | 2006 - 2011
Graduated with Distinction, Cognitive Science Option.
Seneca Polytechnic
College Diploma, Computer Programming and Analysis | 2003 - 2006
Areas of work
Platform engineering, developer experience, AI-assisted product development, embedded web, native/mobile systems, workflow design, observability, and technical leadership. Swift and Objective-C.
Contact
Updated October 6, 2026. Explore selected projects →