Luka Dornhecker
Senior Backend Engineer at Remote
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorLuka Dornhecker is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Hamburg with 13 years of experience building production-grade web applications using Ruby on Rails and Elixir/Phoenix. His career spans startups and larger companies—including Shopify and several German tech firms—where he’s focused on reliable, maintainable backend systems and pragmatic engineering practices. Luka moves comfortably between legacy Rails codebases and newer Elixir services, bringing a pragmatic eye for incremental modernization. He’s committed to continuous learning and often explores emerging patterns and tooling to improve team velocity and system resilience. Colleagues know him for shipping steady improvements that reduce technical debt while enabling faster feature delivery.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
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docker-compose10
protobuf10
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postgresql10
jinja210
rails10
serialization10
proc-macro10
static-server10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
blinkenlights/polychrome
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
Blinkenlights Polychrome light and sound installation in Mildenberg, Germany
Contributions:5 reviews, 6 PRs, 117 pushes in 1 year
lukad/blog
Dec 2017 - Dec 2021
📝 My blog
Contributions:16 PRs, 73 pushes, 16 branches in 4 years
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