Luke Rewega
Builder at Stealth Startup
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Rewega is a builder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping backend and infrastructure systems across startups and large tech companies, including Amazon Lab126, Uber, Stripe, and Buf. He specializes in backend and DevOps work—demonstrated by contributions to the popular open-source buf project improving CLI behavior, registry integration, and build tooling. Comfortable moving between product-stage startups and high-scale organizations, Luke blends hands-on engineering with practical operational instincts and a track record of fixing thorny edge cases like signal and EOF handling. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs an Honours BComp in Computer Science with an appetite for tooling improvements that make developer workflows more reliable.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Computing Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Computing Computer Science at University of Guelph
Github Skills (11)
buf10
go10
protocol-buffers10
devops9
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
testing8
cicd7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bufbuild/buf
Dec 2021 - May 2022
The best way of working with Protocol Buffers.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 8 commits, 16 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to improving the `buf` command-line tool and its interaction with the Buf Schema Registry. Their work involved bug fixes related to login handling and context management, ensuring correct behavior during user interactions like EOF or SIGINT signals. They also updated Go dependencies, including upgrading the Go version and adjusting build scripts. Additionally, the user introduced a helper function for obtaining the test timeout value.
protocol-buffersbuf-schema-registryprotobufgrpcbuf-cli
lrewega/magick
Oct 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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