Luke Lanchester
Software Engineer at Waybook
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLuke Lanchester is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 15 years’ experience architecting high-performance, resilient systems for everything from content-driven sites and corporate intranets to globally distributed applications and high-throughput APIs. He blends hands-on development and infrastructure security expertise—honed through long-term freelance work and senior roles at 383, Turn Partners and Waybook—to reliably deliver production systems that have served millions of users. Luke is an active open-source contributor with work inside the ChakraCore JavaScript engine, reflecting a deeper interest in runtime internals and robust testing practices. He also runs several community sites and publishes tools and plugins (100k+ downloads), demonstrating a commitment to shipping usable developer-facing software as well as customer products.
15 years of coding experience
Software Engineering, IT, 1:1, Software Engineering, IT, 1:1 at Birmingham City University
English
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
c-language10
chakracore10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
javascript-engine10
chakra10
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chakra-core/ChakraCore
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Luke's commits primarily focus on modifying the `toLocaleString` function within the ChakraCore JavaScript engine. Their contributions involve adding support for object properties, refactoring to use default cases for arrays, and updating associated tests. The user also updated the tests to correctly test the actual `toLocaleString` method and to ensure proper state resets. These changes suggest a focus on JavaScript engine internals and testing methodologies.
javascript-enginechakracoreruntimemicrosoftc-api
Dachande663/PHP-Validation
Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 11 months
arrayvalidationclient-sideclient-side-validationphp
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