Luke Ehresman
Managing Director, Software Engineer, Co-Founder at Gazelle
Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Ehresman is an entrepreneurial software engineer and managing director with 26 years of experience building and operating production systems for startups and established companies. As co-founder of Gazelle (a role spanning a decade and now leading the company), he blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to deliver customer-focused software solutions. His background includes embedded and automation software for warehouse robotics, SaaS infrastructure, and a stint at Oracle, demonstrating breadth across high-throughput systems and enterprise environments. He founded the early open-source webmail project SquirrelMail, showing a long-standing commitment to practical, community-driven software. Based in Holly Springs, NC, Luke combines academic training (BS and MS in Computer Science) with entrepreneurial grit from running a software incubator and freelance practice, and he often focuses on solving real-world business problems rather than chasing trends.
26 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Taylor University
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Github Skills (200)
animated10
ruby10
mailchimp-api10
email-client10
imap-client10
relay10
printing10
cups10
ffi-wrapper10
smtp-client10
querying10
recurrence10
recurrence-rules10
smtp-protocol10
signal10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nehresma/cupsffi
May 2011 - Oct 2019
libcups ffi wrapper
Contributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 8 years 6 months
printingrubyfficupsffi-wrapper
nehresma/ice_cube
Jul 2018 - Dec 2024
Ruby Date Recurrence Library - Allows easy creation of recurrence rules and fast querying
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 5 months
queryingrecurrencerecurrence-rulesrubyrules
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