Luke Lavalva
Software Engineer 3 at eBay
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Lavalva is a Software Engineer 3 in San Francisco with eight years of experience focused on web performance and accessibility. Currently at eBay, he progressed quickly through engineering levels while contributing practical front-end solutions and performance optimizations for large-scale web experiences. He’s an active open-source contributor to the Marko framework, adding features like the <id> tag and improving event handler conventions to enhance developer ergonomics and dynamic templating. Luke combines a strong academic foundation—dual BS/BA degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics (3.9 GPA)—with hands-on product experience across startups and research projects, including NLP and ECOC machine learning work. Practical, detail-oriented, and educator-minded, he also has a background teaching computer science and mentoring peers.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
ENGINEERING, ENGINEERING at High Technology High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.9, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.9 at Rowan University
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Github Skills (16)
html10
javascript10
ui-components10
front-end-development9
ui-design9
dom9
uid9
nodejs8
isomorphic8
nested6
visual-studio-code6
latex6
forloop6
python6
manim6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
marko-js/marko
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
A declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 101 PRs, 163 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Luke contributed to the `marko-js/marko` repository by adding new features, specifically the `<id>` tag, and aligning event handler naming conventions with Marko v5. Their work included modifications to the `packages/runtime/src/html/writer.ts`, `packages/translator/src/core/id.ts` and related test fixtures. Additionally, the user added native tag references with the ability to have tag variables and dynamic bodies. These changes appear to enhance the Marko framework's capabilities for web application development.
javascriptdeclarativeweb-appsisomorphiccompiler
LuLaValva/lukelavalva.com
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:158 commits, 111 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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