David Luecke
Owner at Feathers Cloud Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Luecke is the creator and steward of FeathersJS with 14 years of engineering experience and a decade building a production-ready API and real-time framework that has earned 14.6K GitHub stars and 40K+ npm downloads. As owner of Feathers Cloud and a former co-founder and partner, he blends hands-on full-stack development, DevOps and technical writing—contributing across client auth, docs, CI/CD and UI work in notable projects like DoneJS, StealJS and TodoMVC. He specializes in rapid prototyping to production workflows using JavaScript and TypeScript, helping teams integrate realtime APIs with any frontend or backend stack. Based in Vancouver, he’s equally comfortable refactoring authentication clients to prevent memory leaks as he is shaping developer experience through clear documentation—an often overlooked but critical part of open-source success.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Foreign Student Exchange, Computer sciences, Foreign Student Exchange, Computer sciences at Mount Royal CollegeBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
German, English
Stackoverflow
43,964reputation
7.8mreached
880answers
21questions
internationalization
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design-patterns
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java
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spring
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naming-conventions
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model-view-controller
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Github Skills (79)
authentication10
gruntjs10
automation10
automation-testing10
self-organization10
markdown10
javascript10
jquery10
uid10
socket10
front-end-development10
jsonwebtoken10
http-request10
jwt10
html10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
feathersjs/docs
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
[MOVED] Legacy Feathers documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:750 commits, 760 PRs, 1189 pushes in 7 years
Contributions summary:David's contributions primarily revolve around updating and refining the documentation for the FeathersJS project. The commits involve restructuring content, adding new sections such as a cookbook, and improving the overall organization and presentation of the API documentation. The changes demonstrate a focus on clarity and user experience, ensuring the documentation accurately reflects the latest versions and features of FeathersJS. Further contributions include the addition of redirect rules and the inclusion of social media links, improving the overall usability and discoverability of the documentation.
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feathersjs/feathers-chat
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
A Feathers real-time chat application
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 110 commits, 215 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the front-end development of a Feathers real-time chat application. Their work included implementing a jQuery-based chat interface, adding a React-based chat client, and updating the front-end to match the guide's appearance. They also addressed issues related to scrolling and authentication, demonstrating a focus on user experience and application functionality.
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