Ryan Luker

Tech Lead

Senior Individual Contributor with over 10 years of software development across a range of industries.

Kelowna, British Columbia CA

github @ryanluker

https://github.com/ryanluker

Tech Lead Sep 2020 - Present

Technical lead for a team of developers creating B2B integrations with external partners

Team Growth - Assisted in growing the engineering organization through adoption of agile scrum, hiring and developer culture best practices
Mentorship - Mentored team members by coordinating technical work, in order to scale the developers into more senior roles.
Django - Scaled django apps from hundreds to millions of users.
Postgres - Orchestrated complex relational schemas to provide scaling in performance and feature development.
HL7, FHIR - Integrated with established healthcare vendors to provide bring your down data scenarios.

Senior Developer Sep 2017 - Sep 2020

Worked directly with company founders to develop and iterate on early startup product features.

Product Developer - Directly worked with the co-founders to bring business requirements to life.
Python - Scaled up features quickly in a fast moving startup environment, with maintainable code as a focus.
Typescript - Transitioned the javascript web app to typescript in an incremental manner and provided guidance / workshops to other developers.
Web Components - Lobbied and adopted the use of web components at the engineering department level to leverage a shared component library.

Developer Jan 2014 - Aug 2017

Developed web application features in a fast pace startup, mainly focused in the education space

Web Development

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PWA, SCSS, Web Components, React

Backend Development

Python, Django, Stress and Load Testing, OWASP Analysis, Java Spring Microservices, 12 Factor Apps

Chair (2019) Treasurer (2023) Oct 2018 - Present

Focused on raising local entrepenueral spirit by providing startup education

Successfully ran multiple events on an annual basis
Setup not for profit society and maintained a positive cash flow year to year
Contibuted to the local startup community with more workers and potential companies

Mar 2017 - Present

Provides code coverage indicators in the IDE

Highlights

Sep 2008 - Apr 2013

Bachelor (inc) Computing Science

English: Native speaker

Outdoors: Fishing, Hiking, Camping

Entrepreneurship: Okanagan Startup Weekend, Okanagan Young Professionals, Kelowna Tech Wings