Luke Mcdonald
Staff Engineer at ZenBusiness
Monticello, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Mcdonald is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and technical lead with 15+ years building high-velocity frontend architectures, design systems, and growth-focused platform features. He has a track record of delivering measurable outcomes—cutting UI duplication by 60%, improving funnel LCP by ~40%, and shrinking delivery timelines from six weeks to under one—by architecting a company-wide React component library (ZUI) and a skip-logic funnel framework. A founder-turned-enterprise engineer, he combines entrepreneurial product sense (co-founded a firm that drove $2.5M+ revenue and secured a 10-year Automattic partnership) with deep hands-on skills across React, GraphQL, Django microservices, and PHP. He champions observability, accessibility, and AI-assisted workflows to raise quality without chaos, and he’s known for mentoring teams, codifying frontend best practices, and operating with humility informed by his Christian faith. An active contributor to WordPress-related projects, he brings both practical open-source experience and a bias for engineering systems that help teams ship faster and think clearer.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Graphic Communications, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Graphic Communications at Minnesota State University, Moorhead
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Github Skills (9)
html10
wordpress10
php10
ecommerce8
ed255197
git7
json6
javascript6
jquery6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
awesomemotive/easy-digital-downloads
Aug 2012 - Sep 2012
Sell digital downloads through WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on improving the codebase's quality and adherence to WordPress coding standards. Their contributions include escaping HTML and attributes to enhance security. They also refactored code formatting and updated code to improve maintainability and readability. The user demonstrated their expertise in PHP by modifying template functions and checkout functionality.
stripeecommercewordpress-apiwordpressphp
audiotheme/progeny-mmxv
Jan 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 5 months
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