Luke Cotter
Technical Architect at Certinia
Harrogate, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Cotter is a Technical Architect with 11 years of hands-on Salesforce expertise, currently leading performance and scalability initiatives at Certinia. He builds developer tooling—most notably the Apex Debug Log Analyzer—and has a proven track record of diagnosing production issues and improving complex LWC UI load times by up to 5x. Previously a technical lead and product architect at FinancialForce, he combines deep platform knowledge with pragmatic engineering to solve enterprise ISV challenges. Based in Harrogate, he is an active open-source contributor focused on making Salesforce applications faster and easier to operate. Collected academic grounding in computer science from Newcastle University complements his practical experience across development, architecture, and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours Computer Science 2.1, Computer Science, BSc Honours Computer Science 2.1, Computer Science at Newcastle UniversityA - Level and GCSE, A - Level and GCSE at Rossett School
English
Github Skills (77)
salesforce-api10
vscode-debugger10
visual-studio-code-extension10
libgit210
flame10
visual-studio10
nvm10
isomorphic-javascript10
javascript10
jquery10
formatter10
browser10
dml10
editor10
prompt10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lukecotter/debug-log-analyzer
Apr 2021 - Apr 2025
Visual Studio Code extension to aid with Salesforce Apex debug log analysis
Contributions:3 PRs, 645 pushes, 528 branches in 4 years
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionlog-analysissalesforce-apex
certinia/debug-log-analyzer
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Salesforce Apex debug log analyzer for Visual Studio Code - Visualize code execution via a Flame chart and identify performance and SOQL/DML problems via Method and Database analysis
Contributions:6 reviews, 333 commits, 255 PRs in 1 year 8 months
dmlvisualizedebuglogproblemssalesforce
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