Lucas Hills
Head Of Engineering at Duke Education
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Hills is a veteran full‑stack engineering leader with 15 years of hands-on experience and over two decades of cross-disciplinary leadership guiding sales, product and engineering teams. Currently Head of Engineering at Duke Education, he has taken products from concept to profitable reality in under eight months while hiring and mentoring high-performing teams. Previously he led large-scale, cross-team programs at Zendesk—coordinating 14 international teams to deliver high-throughput messaging features and re-architect monolithic systems to handle billions of daily requests. Comfortable switching between architecture, incident response, and customer-facing negotiations, he blends deep Ruby/Rails and backend experience with modern frontend and CI/CD practices. An active contributor to the Ruby ecosystem (notably MiniMagick platform fixes and Windows compatibility), he combines pragmatic engineering with strong stakeholder alignment to deliver robust, scalable products.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
VCE, VCE at Beaufort Secondary CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Software Engineering at University of Roehampton
Github Skills (7)
ruby10
imagemagick10
testing10
multiplatform9
file-handling9
cross-platform9
git8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
minimagick/minimagick
Dec 2011 - Dec 2011
mini replacement for RMagick
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on refactoring and bug fixing within the MiniMagick gem. Their contributions involved adjusting image processing functionalities, including file reading and image creation across different platforms. They addressed platform-specific issues, particularly related to Windows compatibility, and made necessary changes to the testing suite to reflect these adjustments. Furthermore, they updated the version and dependencies to ensure proper functionality.
rmagickrubyimage-processingsketchupreplacement
2potatocakes/google_storage
Jun 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:51 commits in 1 year 4 months
apiclient-libraryruby-clientrubystorage-api
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