Luke Schoen
Videographer Photographer at SchoenImages
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Schoen is a visual storyteller and communications strategist with 12 years’ experience helping brands, agencies, and purpose-driven organisations craft cinematic photography and documentary-style video from concept through post-production. Combining a background in global communications, sustainability and data science, he brings narrative focus and stakeholder insight to commercial shoots, interviews, and social campaigns—comfortable as a solo operator or collaborative second shooter and colourist. His work is grounded in technical mastery (DaVinci Resolve colour grading, on-set reliability) and honed by prior strategic roles at organisations like Commonwealth Bank, Mobike and Burson-Marsteller where he led cross-border communications and ESG projects. An active contributor to developer-focused open-source projects in the Polkadot/Substrate ecosystem, he’s iterated front-end transaction logic and improved developer docs—an unusual blend of creative practice and technical problem-solving. Based in Stony Stratford, he’s currently building local partnerships across the UK while remaining available for freelance and collaborative commissions.
12 years of coding experience
B.A. Anthropology and Asian Studies (Honors), B.A. Anthropology and Asian Studies (Honors) at Dartmouth CollegeCertificate in Advanced Mandarin Tsinghua/Berkeley Inter-University Program for Advanced Chinese Language (IUP), Certificate in Advanced Mandarin Tsinghua/Berkeley Inter-University Program for Advanced Chinese Language (IUP) at Tsinghua UniversityGraduate Certificate in Data Science, Graduate Certificate in Data Science at RMIT UniversityWashougal High SchoolCertificate Intensive Chinese Language, Certificate Intensive Chinese Language at Beijing Normal UniversityMA in Law & Diplomacy Development Economics International Environment and Resource Policy Pacific Asia, MA in Law & Diplomacy Development Economics International Environment and Resource Policy Pacific Asia at The Fletcher School at Tufts UniversityStädtisches Gymnasium Löhne
English, German, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (30)
git10
substrate10
javascript10
back-end-development10
css10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
polkadot-js10
api10
front-end-development10
ethereum10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
rust10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
paritytech/substrate-telemetry
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Polkadot Telemetry service
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 8 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on backend development tasks, including refactoring and improving existing code. They implemented port number constants for the telemetry server and feed server, enhancing code readability and maintainability. The user also addressed issues related to calculating average block time, refactoring code to import the block average function correctly and avoid recursive imports. Furthermore, they fixed a bug in CPU usage calculation, improving application performance.
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paritytech/substrate
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 30 commits, 54 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on bug fixes, documentation updates, and refactoring within the Substrate repository. Their commits corrected typos in code and documentation, improved code clarity by renaming methods and removing disused packages. They also added functionality and refactored the Assets module.
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