Ascendium Education Group
Luke Shelley is a Cloud Application Security Engineer at Ascendium Education Group, a position held since November 2023. Previously, Luke served as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Optum from February 2023 to November 2023, where initiatives included developing monitoring pipelines and automation using Terraform for enterprise hospital web applications. Prior to that, Luke worked at Change Healthcare as a Site Reliability Engineer, focusing on monitoring enhancements and dynamic dashboard generation. Luke's career began with roles at the University of Wisconsin Foundation as a Desktop Engineer II and at ERDMAN as an IT Services Analyst. Additional experience includes positions at INOC, Eastbay, CliftonLarsonAllen, and Medline Industries, complementing a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Science from Emmaus Bible College.
Ascendium Education Group
For more than 50 years, Ascendium’s mission has been to make learning beyond high school available to everyone so they can reach their highest potential. We help people pay back their student loans, provide schools and businesses with services that promote financial wellbeing and quality of life and give grants to organizations that work to increase access to education and workforce training. For the past three years, Ascendium has been named a Top Workplace, both nationally and in the Madison, Wisconsin, area. We’re proud of these designations as they speak to the culture we’ve created — one where employees feel connected to our organization and believe in our vision to elevate opportunity through education and workforce training.