Luke Scoates
Principal Engineer at Tropic
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Scoates is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience designing APIs, building user experiences, and architecting large-scale solutions across backend and frontend domains. He has led distributed teams and managed billing systems that process hundreds of millions of dollars, and personally designed migrations that moved 100M+ records to a new data architecture. Comfortable as an individual contributor, tech lead, and engineering manager, he combines hands-on implementation with process improvements that boosted cross-team collaboration and clearer scoping. At Chargify he delivered multi-currency support and customizable pricing adopted by the majority of customers, and at Abstract he cut CI runtime by 60% for core products. Based in Coquitlam, BC, Luke is known for mentoring engineers into senior roles and for creating engineering-wide feedback loops such as culture surveys and pre-development scoping. He pairs product-minded UX experience from earlier roles with deep technical ownership, making him effective at translating business needs into reliable, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Entrepreneurship, BBA Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University
Spanish, French, English
Github Skills (25)
activeresource9
payment-gateway9
payment-integration9
square9
payment9
payment-processing9
adyen9
spree8
netsuite8
abstraction8
shopify8
mruby6
api6
ruby6
ecommerce6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lscoates/mmnt
Jun 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:48 PRs, 109 pushes, 45 branches in 1 year 11 months
lscoates/enscholar
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:40 pushes in 3 months
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