Luke Vance
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorLuke Vance is a seasoned developer-experience leader, currently Director of Developer Experience at Visa, where he shapes tools, APIs, and delightful developer workflows at scale. With a decade of product management and engineering experience, he has led developer platforms initiatives at Trustly, Twilio, and Cloud Elements, delivering measurable gains in usability, reduced toil, and cross-organizational metrics such as NPS and DORA. A former founder and co-founder, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a disciplined, iterative approach to building lovable experiences. Based in Denver, Colorado, he leverages deep API integration and CLI tooling expertise to map complex systems into accessible developer ecosystems. He brings a strong full-stack foundation and design-thinking background from Galvanize and Victoria University of Wellington, enabling him to connect technical detail with user needs. His bias for experimentation in moderate chaos, paired with methodical measurement, turns ambiguous challenges into scalable, user-centered solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (45)
cop8
kotlin8
decks8
webview8
reactjs7
android7
react7
swift7
getstream-io6
sdk6
espn6
ios6
census6
cocoapods5
api5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lukevance/cyoa-reader
May 2020 - Aug 2022
Simple web app for reading and exploring a quarantine-themed choose your own adventure story
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
reactjavascriptchoose-your-own-adventurequarantinethemed
lukevance/broce
Oct 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 96 pushes, 20 branches in 11 months
manufacturing
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