Luke Mccarthy
Technical Lead at PEXA
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolLuke Mccarthy is a Technical Lead with 13 years of hands-on engineering experience and a 17-year commercial background across Energy, Finance, Insurance, Government and other sectors. He blends front-end expertise in React, JavaScript and GraphQL with backend experience in C#, MongoDB and search tech to deliver near-real-time data visualisations and scalable web systems. A practised advocate of TDD/BDD and Agile methods, he has repeatedly reduced risk and cost—e.g., enabling legacy decommissions that saved large annual sums and cutting support overhead for public services. Luke is also a coach and mentor who organized internal conferences at ThoughtWorks to grow technical presentation skills and helped consultants perform under high client expectations. Comfortable translating complex technical concepts for executives and end users, he thrives in high-standard, cross-disciplinary teams and has a track record of making large datasets feel instantaneous for users. Based in Melbourne, he combines commercial pragmatism from running small businesses with enterprise-grade delivery at consultancies and product companies.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology (Software Development) Information Technology, Information Technology (Software Development) Information Technology at TAFE NSWComputer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at University of WollongongCertificate IV in Business (Small Business Management) Business, Certificate IV in Business (Small Business Management) Business at Mission AustraliaExchange Program part of my Computer Science Degree at The University of Wollongong Computer Science, Exchange Program part of my Computer Science Degree at The University of Wollongong Computer Science at Uppsala University
English
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Github Skills (32)
bitcoin9
installer9
cryptocurrency9
pip8
p2p8
cryptography8
packaging8
staging8
python7
package-installer7
html6
xml6
adobe-reader6
visual-studio6
nodenv6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thelukemccarthy/scripts_and_files
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
thelukemccarthy/OutlookAddNote
Sep 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:21 commits in 15 days
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