Luke Miles
Cofounder at Context
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Miles is a Cofounder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building product-led companies and developer-facing systems from the San Francisco Bay Area. He co-founded Context, the team behind Mint.fun and Lanyard.org, helping raise $19.5M to craft thoughtful web3 interfaces while continuing to hire and ship. Previously he led engineering work at Stripe—spinning up a product team, productionizing ML models, and owning incident response—and held senior and founding roles at Byte Inc and Restocks. Luke contributes to open source (notably improving video and Bandcamp embeds and fixing XSS vectors in the popular blot project) and blends backend engineering, security-minded refactors, and product instincts. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who moves between hands-on coding, technical leadership, and user-focused product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Github Skills (7)
xs10
web-security10
javascript10
xss10
cheerio9
html9
regex8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
davidmerfield/blot
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Turns a folder into a website
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on enhancing video embedding functionality within the `blot` repository, which converts a folder into a website. They implemented support for Bandcamp embeds, including fetching metadata and generating the appropriate HTML. Furthermore, the user addressed security vulnerabilities by incorporating `encodeURI` calls to prevent XSS-like attacks and refactored code for improved performance. Finally, the user corrected a padding issue related to bandcamp embeds.
turns
lukemiles/tasker-btc-prices
Dec 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
localbitcoinstaskercoinbasepricesblockchain
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