Luke Burden
Director Of Online Engineering at Poparide
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Burden is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building and operating high-scale online services, currently serving as Director of Online Engineering at Demonware and co-founder/CTO of rideshare startup Poparide. He combines hands-on backend expertise in Python/Django and distributed systems with product-minded leadership, having shipped payment and marketplace systems that processed millions in flow and supported games at 2M+ concurrent users. A pragmatic mentor and manager, he’s led cross-functional teams, hiring efforts, and CI/DevOps practice while advocating clean APIs and observable production services. An active open-source contributor, his backend work on well-known Django projects like django-allauth and pinax-stripe-light reflects a focus on authentication, payments, and robust integrations. Based in Vancouver, he’s known for an easy-going style that translates technical depth into reliable, user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
English, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
registrar10
useraccounts10
python10
django10
user-authentication10
authentication10
service-account10
payment10
multiple-accounts10
registrator10
registers10
stripe-api10
social-auth9
database-design9
log-in9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pinax/pinax-stripe-light
Oct 2014 - Nov 2017
a payments Django app for Stripe
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 8 PRs, 55 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the `pinax-stripe-light` Django application, a payments app for Stripe. Their work included resolving an issue with the 'capture' argument in the Stripe API, addressing unicode character handling in the Customer model, and improving performance in the sync_customers command. Additionally, the user added and refined functionality for custom account management. These changes enhanced the application's stability, corrected errors, and optimized the synchronization process.
django-appspaymentsstripepythondjango
pennersr/django-allauth
Oct 2015 - Mar 2020
Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 36 comments in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the backend of the Django-based authentication and account management system. Their work focused on refactoring and enhancing the `allauth` adapter, including stashing and unstashing user information to avoid session usage. They adjusted methods for user stashing and modified how inactive user responses are handled. Additionally, the user enabled subclassing of provider registration, as well as added and updated signals to manage social account updates.
xadminpythonpartyintegrateddjango-framework
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