Luke Bayes
Founder at Eight Amps
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Bayes is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 20 years of experience building product-focused web and client applications, from startups to Google and YouTube. He blends hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and product design—having led an HTML5 TV client team at YouTube and shipped critical payment and monetization systems at Jambool. A serial founder and open-source contributor, he co-created testing frameworks and ActionScript tooling (AsUnit, Project Sprouts) and contributed QA improvements to notable repos like robertpenner/as3-signals. Known for pragmatic delivery and team-building, he favors clear communication, technical craftsmanship, and measurable business value. His unconventional background—from Marine helicopter mechanic to AV director and artist—adds disciplined problem-solving and a practical, plainspoken leadership style. Now based on Florida’s gulf coast, he runs Eight Amps, marrying coastal life with continued software innovation.
20 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Fine Art, Fine Art at California Institute of the Arts
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Github Skills (11)
heroku10
actionscript10
test-automation10
testing10
staging6
flash6
linux6
sql6
apache-flex6
ruby6
mysql6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
robertpenner/as3-signals
Mar 2010 - Apr 2010
Signals is a new approach for AS3 events, inspired by C# events and signals/slots in Qt.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure of the project. They integrated asynchronous update tests and updated the test framework to the latest version, replacing the asunit4 package with asunit. The user also added numerous tests for anonymous listeners and ensured their correct functionality. Furthermore, they updated the AsUnit SWC to address warnings and incorporate fixes, which indicates a strong commitment to test quality and maintainability.
csharpqt
lukebayes/laml
Apr 2008 - Aug 2009
Contributions:96 commits, 2 comments, 4 issues in 1 year 4 months
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