Luke Arnould is a Senior Backend Developer with 8 years of experience building reliable, maintainable systems and leading digital transformation efforts. Currently at MidFirst Bank and serving as Director of IT for a nonprofit, he blends enterprise backend engineering with hands-on infrastructure and tooling work. He has a track record of improving developer workflows—streamlining CI/CD, creating internal libraries, and shipping REST-first .NET/CQRS services—while mentoring and onboarding teammates. An active contributor to open-source, Luke has made UI and Vulkan-related improvements to the high-profile Dolphin emulator, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack skill set that spans Qt, React, and Auth0-based apps. Known for clear communication and documentation, he routinely turns complex requirements into usable tooling and faster team ramp-up. Based in Oklahoma City, he’s a dark-mode advocate who pairs attention to detail with a continual appetite for learning and broader organizational impact.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Management Science and Information Systems | Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Management Science and Information Systems | Information Assurance at Oklahoma State University
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 21 PRs, 86 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on improving the Dolphin emulator's user interface (UI) and configuration options within the Qt framework. Their work included renaming UI elements for better consistency, refining descriptions for various graphics settings, and reordering and modifying elements in the menu bar. They also added features related to Vulkan support, and made adjustments to the game list context menu.
Interview challenge project to build CRUD app for hospitals
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 38 pushes in 6 months
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