Summary
Luke Hardiman is a seasoned full-stack developer and systems engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web, mobile, and enterprise infrastructure. He currently supports a hospital patient administration system, where he resolves high-impact clinical issues, integrates legacy platforms (Informix, Rapid 4GL, ACE) and delivers robust .NET Core and API solutions under on-call pressure. Equally fluent in PHP frameworks, modern JavaScript stacks (React, Vue, Angular, Node), Java, and Linux server administration, he blends deep legacy reverse-engineering skills with contemporary DevOps and cloud practices. As founder of KOHA Information Technology and a long-time contributor on GitHub and Stack Overflow, he pairs an operator’s calm with entrepreneurial initiative. Notably, his career balances mission-critical healthcare work with ongoing open-source contributions and a pragmatic “show me the code” ethos. Based in Hastings, New Zealand, he’s known for performance tuning, rapid incident response, and translating complex clinical requirements into reliable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Programming, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Programming at Whitireia Polytechnic