Luke Cassar
Senior Engineer at Envato
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLuke Cassar is a Senior Engineer based in Melbourne with 10 years of experience building and scaling Ruby on Rails applications, currently shaping platform work at Envato after leading large monolith scaling efforts at Zendesk. He combines strong engineering craft with a background in finance and derivatives from early roles at Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, which informs his attention to correctness, compliance, and operational rigor. A proven team leader and mentor, he runs remote-first team practices, documents rituals, and drives culture while still contributing hands-on to domain modelling and clean code. Outside product work he has led GovHack development under tight deadlines, demonstrating an ability to extend systems for peak demand and high-volume support.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of QueenslandThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Marymount College Burleigh Waters
Stackoverflow
11reputation
98reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (26)
authentication8
webpack7
rails7
frontend6
spree6
mongodb6
heroku6
devise6
ruby6
javascript6
warden3
react3
act3
quality-assurance2
drupal2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
govhackaustralia/hackerspace3
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Competition Management System for the GovHack Hackathon
Contributions:18 reviews, 1397 commits, 203 PRs in 3 years 6 months
management-systemgovhackcompetition-management
cassar/flourish
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Universal Income Application
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 399 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.