Luke Wilson

Contact- www.linkedin.com/in/luke-d-awilson (LinkedIn) Top Skills Team Leadership C# Node.js Luke Wilson Consultant | Engineering Manager | Scrum Master London Summary I wrote my first hello world program in Qbasic at the age of eight, and have been coding ever since. With 12 years professional experience, as an engineer, team lead and scrum master, I have worked with a wide range of industries and technologies, building first releases at start-ups and taking over large, complex code-bases at established companies. As a leader and scrum-master, I enjoy coaching teams in practicing agile effectively, levelling-up developers, and choosing the right architecture to deliver performant, scalable software. I advocate a pragmatic and empirical approach to process and team organisation, emphasising agile principles and continuous delivery. I enjoy working with engineers who look beyond the current abstraction or framework and seek a deeper understanding; I want to work in a fast-paced, delivery focused environment at a company that values pragmatism over process. Experience Intelligent Hack Engineering Manager 2021 - Present (less than a year) We are your “development therapist”. We are not afraid to ask the tough questions to find the root cause of your problems holding you back from achieving your goals. We team up with you, work closely with your management and staff to come up with the best solutions. Toptal Freelance 2020 - Present (1 year) I work with a variety of clients on the Toptal network. Page 1 of 5 Clevertech Team Lead 2019 - 2020 (1 year) Remote CleverTech is a remote, US-based consultancy working with a variety of clients. I was hired to deliver a greenfield project to help a major US corporation become compliant with a new California data privacy law. We built a preference management system, which syncs the visitors' preferences across multiple devices and sites, and integrates with services such as Segment.io to manage analytics/data tracking on each device. The project was delivered successfully. As team lead, scrum master and (initially) product owner, I was responsible for building the product backlog, managing interactions with the client, overseeing the architecture and technical quality of the product, building the culture of the team, and line-management. In particular, I drove our QA process, winning my team round to a pragmatic, automation-driven approach, focusing on performance and realistic, concurrent test scenarios. Technologies included node.js/express, React and Google Firestore. Toptal Team Lead | Scrum Master | Back-End Developer 2017 - 2019 (2 years) Remote Toptal is a talent network which brings together remote freelancers and companies looking to hire them. I took over the team responsible for general technical improvements to the main platform. The team’s function was subsequently changed to focus on building tools used by the sales and recruitment teams. I managed the transition of the team, which increased in size from 4 to 7 people. We developed a communication system for the sales and recruitment teams, supporting VOIP and video calls. This Call Widget provides important analytics correlating call activity with a number of business KPIs, allowing these teams to optimise their business processes in a ‘data-driven’ fashion. We built the tool from scratch (using Twilio and BlueJeans as 3rd-party providers for our VOIP and video calling functionality respectively), and has been rolled out to the business teams. Page 2 of 5 I built a team that has a good relationship with the business stakeholders whilst still being product-led. As a team lead, my responsibilities included conducting performance reviews for my team, encouraging professional development and growth, providing technical and architectural leadership, working with the Product Manager to groom the work backlog and track progress, and being the main point of contact for the business stakeholders. I also worked as scrum master on a team responsible for the developer experience of our large engineering team, building integrations between the various services (Slack, Github, Sentry error-reporting, YouTrack), creating an agile dashboard for our product team and stakeholders, and successfully migrating our project-tracking from YouTrack to Jira. As scrum master, I was responsible for the delivery of the team, encouraging collaboration between developers, removing any non-technical impediments, and facilitating continuous improvement through regular retrospectives. Main technologies include node.js, Google Cloud, Ansible, Jenkins, Travis and Docker. Propoly Head of Technology 2016 - 2017 (1 year) London, England, United Kingdom Propoly was an online letting agent. I joined this start-up as head of technology to rescue a struggling project with an over-specified MVP, no investors, and most of the team gone. Working to tight deadlines and largely unsupported, I learned the product, tech stack and codebase, and managed the remaining developer (whose motivation had been severely impacted by the turmoil at the company). I became a very pragmatic developer, assimilating new technologies and platforms, improving the infrastructure, fixing bugs and delivering new features, always balancing between architectural solidity and rapid delivery. We succeeded in delivering the site, and signed up our first landlords; however, continuing funding issues forced me to leave the role. Technologies included Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Docker and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Quantone Limited Page 3 of 5 Senior Engineer 2014 - 2016 (2 years) London, England, United Kingdom Quantone is a music metadata start up. I joined as their 3rd engineer to get a fairly junior team working efficiently together, and build their API and other core products. This provided me with leadership experience as the senior developer on the team (including mentoring the younger developers), as well as deepening my web-development skills, broadening my technologies and giving me experience of a start-up environment. Technologies included ASP.NET WebApi, Neo4j, Scala, Python and the NLTK (for natural language processing). Trayport Software Engineer 2011 - 2014 (3 years) London, England, United Kingdom Technologies included ASP.NET MVC, IIS, Silverlight, Ruby and Linux. BJSS Software Engineer 2008 - 2011 (3 years) Leeds, England, United Kingdom Technologies included .NET-remoting, Reactive Extensions, SQL Server and Java. University of Leeds Summer Intern 2007 - 2007 (less than a year) Leeds, England, United Kingdom Simulating spiking neural networks. University of Leeds Assistant software engineer 2002 - 2006 (4 years) Leeds, England, United Kingdom School-holiday work developing medical screening and prescribing software. Yorkshire Water Year in Industry Placement 2004 - 2005 (1 year) Page 4 of 5 Bradford, England, United Kingdom Second-line tech support. Education University of Leeds Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics and Computer Science · (2005 - 2008) Page 5 of 5