Luke Butters
Senior Software Engineer at Octopus Deploy
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Butters is a Senior Software Engineer based in Australia with a decade of experience building high-performance, maintainable systems and composable architectures. He currently architects and delivers production software at Octopus Deploy, after eight years at Funnelback where he led development of the core search engine and took ownership of the C/C++ IR query processor and indexer. Luke has a strong background in performance engineering, CI/CD automation, and cross-stack troubleshooting — including fixing issues in upstream open-source libraries — and he regularly mentors engineers on testing and refactoring for reusable components. His experience spans low-level C/C++ optimization to Java backend and build-system engineering, giving him a pragmatic end-to-end view of product and technical trade-offs. Notably, he transitioned from SaaS operations and internal tooling into core product engineering, blending operational insight with long-term architectural thinking.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Github Skills (200)
jakartaee10
parser10
jsoup10
http10
websocket10
spring-security10
security10
http-client10
xss10
embedded10
eclipse10
xpath10
css-selectors10
dotnet10
provisioning10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
LukeButtersFunnelback/jetty.project
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
websocketnettyjettyeclipseserver
FunnelbackPtyLtd/PfxWebDAVServer
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Java servlet that provides an implementation of the webdav protocol. Underlying data-storage (database, custom file systems) can be easily plugged in.
Contributions:7 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
custom-databasejava-servletwebdav-protocolfile-systemsdata-storage
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