Luke S.

Luke S.

Golang Developer

United States
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About Me

Luke is a Senior Software Engineer and experienced Manager of engineering teams and organizations with almost a decade of hands-on development and high-level strategic vision. He currently specializes in Golang and Elixir, and is experienced in JavaScript and PHP. Luke enjoys learning and engaging on new products, and working closely with the team to figure out and implement the best solution. He has worked in the trucking software industry for the past 2 years, and before that, he specialized in the optical software industry.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Software Engineer
2021 - Present (3 years)
Remote
  • Create and develop innovative software solutions for different clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Glimesh.tv
Glimesh.tv
Senior Software Engineer/Manager
2020 - Present (4 years)
United States of America
  • Developed a proof of concept streaming site that was up and running in 22 days for 300 live viewers. Maintained a stable 70% end to end test coverage of the main website.

  • Designed and deployed our devops infrastructure to enable us to build a highly available site. Organized a team of 20+ contributors to work together to build the platform.

  • Monitored and maintained a network of 40+ servers responsible for API and video traffic.

Idelic
Idelic
Director of Engineering/Senior Software Engineer
2018 - 2020 (2 years)
United States of America
  • Worked for a business to business software as a service provider in the trucking industry with one major goal: prevent accidents on our roads. Architected our state-of-the-art ETL pipeline to help consolidate disperse customer data into one manageable location.

  • Deployed strategy for breaking down our monolith into microservices to ensure we can scale with the customers' needs. Implemented a unit testing framework to guide our development teams in a direction of quality, well understood code.

  • Implemented Agile development lifecycle processes for that introduced consistency to our deployments and quality to our features. Created security and compliance policies for HIPAA-related data and developed a path for a SOC audit.

Eyemart Express
Eyemart Express
Senior Software Engineer
2012 - 2018 (6 years)
United States of America
  • Worked on the development of optic specific applications including inventory management, optical oriented PoS, lab management systems. Also worked on several front-end projects such as a patient scheduling system and e-commerce websites.

  • Built out a reliable AWS environment for running our most taxing business processes. Refactored a business metric and reporting engine to help our Operations & Marketing teams.

  • Led a team to create a new Point of Sale system for our stores. I was responsible for core development, organizing, and prioritizing our goals.

Portfolio

Director of Engineering/Senior Software Engineer - Idelic
Director of Engineering/Senior Software Engineer - Idelic

The Idelic Safety Suite® is trucking’s most comprehensive driver management platform. Consolidate all your third-party fleet systems into one platform to help manage your fleet data, enable your safety team to proactively predict and prevent crashes, and reduce driver turnover. Architected our state-of-the-art ETL pipeline to help consolidate disperse customer data into one manageable location. Deployed strategy for breaking down our monolith into microservices to ensure we can scale with the customers' needs. Implemented a unit testing framework to guide our development teams in a direction of quality, well-understood code. Technologies: Python, Golang, Scala, PostgreSQL, AWS.

Senior Software Engineer/Manager - Glimesh
Senior Software Engineer/Manager - Glimesh

The project is a Next-gen live video streaming platform. The platform focuses on increasing discoverability for content creators and implementing the latest in streaming technology to level the playing field. Built the platform from the ground up based on the highly concurrent Elixir language. At its peak, it had over a million weekly page views. We use Elixir for the main website & API, and Go for some video processes.

Senior Software Engineer - Minotar
Senior Software Engineer - Minotar

Minotar is an avatar image source for Minecraft characters. Think Gravatar, but for Minecraft. It's highly scaled and at its peak was processing billions of requests a month. Written in Go.

Senior Software Engineer - Gratipay
Senior Software Engineer - Gratipay

Gratipay was a project determined to figure out if funding open source work was possible, a funded pay-what-you-want on our own platform. I helped develop pieces of the project over its 5-6 year span. The main stack was Python.

Education

Dallas Makerspace - Board Member
Dallas Makerspace - Board Member
Volunteer Experience
2018 - 2019 (1 year)