Luke Jones
Software Engineering at Air Traffic Control
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Jones is a seasoned software engineering leader and architect with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering full-stack, safety-critical and high-throughput systems across finance, defence, healthcare and aviation. He combines front-end mastery (Angular/React/MapLibre/Storybook) with backend expertise in Python, Java and cloud-native platforms (Azure/AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform), and has repeatedly driven large performance wins—e.g., an 85% runtime cut in ATC conflict resolution and major ETL speedups in low-latency trading. As a manager he champions DDD/hexagonal design, TDD and measurable engineering productivity gains (reduced cycle times, higher test coverage, lower defects), while mentoring teams in LLM/AI adoption and secure regulated workflows. He’s also an active open-source contributor, extending the Slint GUI toolkit with advanced color/HSV functionality, showing a continued appetite for low-level UI innovation. Trained at University of London with Oxford algorithmic trading coursework, Luke brings a rare blend of algorithmic rigor, systems-level engineering and practical product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
HNC / BTEC, Electromechanical Engineering & Design, HNC / BTEC, Electromechanical Engineering & Design at City of Portsmouth CollegeOxford Algorithmic Trading Programme 2024, Oxford Algorithmic Trading Programme 2024 at University of OxfordMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of LondonHigh School, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Law, High School, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Law at Peter Symonds College Adult & Higher Education
Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Welsh, French, Polish, English
Github Skills (7)
declarative-ui10
user-interface10
rust10
windows-gui10
ui-design10
cpp7
javascript4
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
slint-ui/slint
May 2021 - Feb 2025
Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 7 PRs, 88 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the Slint GUI toolkit by implementing and extending color-related functionalities. They added channel properties to the color type, enabling access to individual color components (red, green, blue, alpha). Furthermore, the user incorporated HSV color methods, including hue, saturation, and brightness access. These changes involved modifications to the compiler, interpreter, and core graphics components, indicating a focus on expanding the toolkit's capabilities and improving its usability.
cppdesktop-applicationsrustjavascriptfluid
flukejones/feature_discovery
Sep 2021 - May 2024
Feature discavery based on material design
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
material-design
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