Luke Evans
Vice President, Software Engineering at Mastercard
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Evans is a seasoned software engineering leader with a decade of experience building product-focused engineering organizations across e-commerce and payments. Rising from hands-on engineering roles at IfOnly to leadership at Mastercard, he combines practical full-stack development experience with proven people and delivery management as VP of Software Engineering. He has a background in applied science and process engineering, beginning his career in technical sales and lab roles, which gives him a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to solving product and operational challenges. Based in San Francisco and holding an MEng in Computer Science from Syracuse, he excels at translating customer-focused requirements into scalable platforms while mentoring teams through growth and complex migrations. Notably, his career arc reflects an uncommon blend of domain fluency—from wet lab technician to payments platform executive—bringing curiosity and cross-disciplinary problem solving to engineering leadership.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology/Biological Sciences General, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biology/Biological Sciences General at California State University, Long BeachMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Syracuse University
Github Skills (11)
san7
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rails3
rest-api3
ruby3
ruby-on-rails3
mongodb3
nodejs3
react1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
levans248/ride_4_less_app
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
WomenWhoCode/wwcode-webclient-app
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:75 commits, 40 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 month
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