Duncan Hoggan
Senior Backend Engineer at luca
Sunshine Coast Regional, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDuncan Hoggan is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable server-side systems and mobile applications, currently based on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He blends a formal electronic engineering background with hands-on leadership across startups and scale-up teams, most recently at luca after leading engineering at The Delta and serving as Technical Director at Nologo Studios. Duncan contributes to notable open-source work on OrchardCore, improving workflow header handling and email workflow features, demonstrating attention to robust integration points. He has deep experience in Android and AWS-driven back ends, and a knack for translating mobile-first requirements into scalable backend tasks. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who moves smoothly between implementation details and product-focused delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BSc.Eng.), Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BSc.Eng.), Electronic Engineering at University of KwaZulu-Natal
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (14)
asp-net10
netcore10
work-flow10
cms10
workflow-engine10
asp-net-core10
orchard-core10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
modular-design9
json8
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OrchardCMS/OrchardCore
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Orchard Core is an open-source modular and multi-tenant application framework built with ASP.NET Core, and a content management system (CMS) built on top of that framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 19 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Duncan primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Orchard Core CMS. They focused on improving the HTTP header handling within workflows, changing how headers are parsed and added, allowing for more flexibility. The user also implemented content item retrieval functionality and added an update content item task to the workflow. They further addressed string localizer references and added ReplyTo functionality to the Email Workflow Display Driver.
cmstenantwcfc-sharporchard-core
duncanhoggan/plugins
Sep 2018 - May 2019
Plugins for Flutter, including FlutterFire, maintained by the Flutter team
Contributions:3 PRs, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
flutterflutter-pluginflutterfiredart
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