Grant Lucas
Director Of Software Engineering at HostPapa
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGrant Lucas is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience scaling remote-first teams and delivering reliable web platforms, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering in Hamilton, Ontario. He has grown organizations from small focused squads to a 50-person, 14-team post-acquisition structure, applying Team Topologies, API-first design, and DORA metrics to improve ownership, velocity, and reliability. A hands-on former full-stack developer, he has driven performance wins—from a 12x e-commerce API improvement to sub-second domain search responses—and contributed to open-source front-end tooling such as an Angular Leaflet directive. Grant excels at building repeatable SDLC workflows, mentoring managers through growth frameworks, and translating M&A technical analysis into strategic decisions. He’s particularly adept at turning operational pain points into scalable internal tooling and observability that boost cross-departmental alignment and developer productivity.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Information Technology, Interactive Multimedia and Design, Bachelors of Information Technology, Interactive Multimedia and Design at Carleton University
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
front-end-development10
leaflet10
angularjs10
testing9
html6
internet-explorer6
dynamic6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tombatossals/angular-leaflet-directive
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
AngularJS directive to embed an interact with maps managed by Leaflet library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Grant primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the AngularJS directive for the Leaflet library. Their contributions included refactoring the map event handling to improve performance and maintainability, specifically addressing the behavior of marker events. The user also introduced features like map event broadcasting and legacy click event compatibility. Additionally, they updated and fixed unit tests.
leafletinteractdirectivemapangularjs
rss-sync/Open-Reader-API
Apr 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:70 commits in 10 months
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