Luke Hutscal
Principal Engineer at Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolLuke Hutscal is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable, scalable web and payments infrastructure from startups to enterprise at companies like Shopify and Clio. He combines hands-on engineering (Ruby, Python, distributed systems) with people leadership—having led teams shipping Shopify Payments and Shopify Capital and later directing engineering for Clio’s infrastructure and third‑party developer ecosystem. Luke has deep payments and compliance experience (PCI, SOX), a track record of shipping product‑critical services, and a pragmatic focus on how teams reach outcomes. He contributes to open source—improving deployment tooling and payment libraries such as Shipit Engine and ActiveMerchant—and often tackles quality through testing and automation. Based in Edmonton, he enjoys tinkering with developer UX details that make systems safer and smoother, like autolinking, notification polish, and better test coverage. Colleagues know him as a builder who stays technical while shaping long‑term vision and operational excellence.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Self-educated
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Github Skills (25)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
activemerchant/active_merchant
Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:49 commits, 76 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the Active Merchant library through comprehensive testing. Their contributions include writing and maintaining unit and remote tests for various payment gateways such as Authorize.Net, PayPal, Stripe, QuickPay, and Beanstream. They also added features like transcript scrubbing to enhance debugging and security, and they updated existing tests to reflect changes in external payment service providers.
ecommerceaimadyenpayment-processingpayment
Shopify/shipit-engine
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Deployment coordination
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Luke made several contributions focused on improving the Shipit Engine's functionality and user experience. They fixed a bug related to commit details views, specifically removing redundant "merged" status indicators. The user also improved the application by autolinking URLs in lock descriptions and adding test coverage to support this. Furthermore, they added functionality to link commit short SHAs to their GitHub URLs and made the desktop notifications banner dismissable.
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