Summary
Luke Galea is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on developer with 17+ years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations from single digits to 120+ across startups and scaleups. He’s been a founding engineer and CTO multiple times, delivering high-traffic platforms (10M+ monthly users), industry-leading digital coaching products, and fintech flows that moved $100M+ in their first year. A remote-work pioneer and systems thinker, he pairs functional coding (Ruby, Elixir, SQL) with organizational design, governance experiments (Holacracy, EOS) and a focus on happy, high-performing teams. He’s equally comfortable shipping production AI features and founding community meetups for Erlang/Elixir, reflecting a passion for both craft and ecosystem building. Currently building AI-first startups and advising founders, he blends product-minded engineering with leadership coaching to help companies scale sustainably. Off-duty he’s a tinkerer, sci-fi fan and father of two who still enjoys getting deep into code and architecture.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer