James Lucktaylor
Production Engineer at OVO
High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Lucktaylor is a production engineer with 11 years' experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently driving reliability at OVO from High Wycombe. He blends systems development, Go backend work, and automation, having moved from senior Go developer to technical lead at Tyk where he improved the popular open-source Tyk API Gateway with bug fixes, performance fixes and middleware enhancements. James has a strong cloud and DevOps pedigree from Cloudreach and earlier roles in QA and systems testing, enabling him to bridge development and operational concerns effectively. He pairs practical full-stack training from Free Code Camp with a formal computing background from RMIT, and is comfortable contributing to well-known open-source projects. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, with an eye for subtle reliability issues (for example resolving CPU slow-burn problems) that often go unnoticed until they hit production.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Maroondah Secondary CollegeFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computing and Digital Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computing and Digital Technology at RMIT University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
reverse-proxy10
apidoc10
microservices-application10
go10
api10
api-gateway10
microservices10
testing9
go-testing9
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
wpgraphql7
wordpress-graphql7
grpc7
graphql7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
TykTechnologies/tyk
Dec 2019 - Mar 2022
Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 60 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the Tyk API Gateway's functionality and reliability. Their contributions included fixing a CPU slow burn issue and addressing other bugs within the core gateway logic. They also implemented a feature to add mascot headers to the health check endpoint and corrected a broken documentation link. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the URL rewriting middleware to include error handling.
api-gatewaygrpcreverse-proxyapi-managementcloudnative
jlucktay/golang-workbench
Feb 2018 - Feb 2025
Messing around with Go
Contributions:16 PRs, 339 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 1 month
golang
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