Luke Rodgers
Head Of Engineering at BlueFinch
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLuke Rodgers is a Head of Engineering and backend/DevOps specialist with 11 years’ experience building and stabilising high-traffic e-commerce platforms across B2B and B2C domains. He combines hands-on engineering—contributions to notable open-source projects like the Magento2 core and the widely used n98-magerun tool—with leadership that drives safer, faster delivery from local dev environments through production. Known for parachuting into broken systems, he focuses on reliability, maintainability and measurable throughput improvements (e.g., major gains in Akeneo and Magento data pipelines). Luke has led complex multi-party deployments, enabled zero-downtime release practices, and shipped tooling that streamlines developer workflows and observability. A security-minded engineer, he has responsibly disclosed 30+ vulnerabilities including critical CVEs, blending offensive curiosity with production-grade fixes. Based in Manchester with a First Class BSc in Computer Science, he brings calm, clarity and a proven track record of turning chaos into long-lasting systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class at The University of ManchesterDown High School
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Github Skills (19)
ecommerce10
wpgraphql10
magento10
cli-app10
cli-application10
php10
wordpress-graphql10
commerce10
graphql10
mysql9
apache9
database-management8
phpunit8
symfony-console8
collections6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
magento/magento2
Aug 2015 - Sep 2022
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 85 commits, 22 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the GraphQL schema stitching in the Magento 2 backend. They made several revisions to the `GraphQlReader.php` file, including optimization and refactoring. They addressed bugs related to union types and empty enums, which were causing errors in the schema parsing process. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of GraphQL and the Magento 2 architecture.
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netz98/n98-magerun
Mar 2015 - Dec 2019
The swiss army knife for Magento developers, sysadmins and devops. The tool provides a huge set of well tested command line commands which save hours of work time. All commands are extendable by a module API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 15 PRs, 60 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the codebase by enhancing the Magento command-line tool, `n98-magerun`. They implemented new features, such as the ability to filter errors in the version comparison tool and the addition of commands for mview reindexing. The user also focused on refactoring and improving existing functionalities, including cache management and the ordering of mysqldump commands. Furthermore, they addressed code quality by updating phpdoc annotations.
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