Luke Silver
Software Engineer at Appwrite
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Silver is a software engineer with nine years’ experience building backend systems and orchestration, currently contributing as an Engineering Lead at Appwrite from London. He focuses on authentication, session management and OAuth2 flows—demonstrated by contributions that added encoded secrets to session bodies and introduced token exchange logic in the popular open-source Appwrite backend. His career spans fast-moving product teams and internships at companies like THG and Samsung Cambridge, where he sharpened scalable engineering and refactoring skills. Trained in computer science at the University of York, he combines practical production savvy with an eye for secure, developer-friendly platform features. An understated strength is translating complex auth flows into clear, maintainable server-side implementations that improve both security and developer experience.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
A & AS Levels, Computer Science, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, A & AS Levels, Computer Science, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics at The Minster School, SouthwellBEng (Hons), Computer Science, BEng (Hons), Computer Science at University of York
Github Skills (5)
php10
back-end-development10
session-management10
oauth10
security9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
appwrite/appwrite
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Your backend, minus the hassle.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:154 reviews, 104 PRs, 558 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Appwrite project. Their work involved enhancing existing session management features, specifically adding the ability to return an encoded secret in the session body. The user also refactored authentication-related logic and implemented a new token exchange for session creation. Moreover, the user made changes related to the session flow for OAuth2, handling token verification, and including a secret in the redirect URL.
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appwrite/builtwith
May 2023 - May 2024
Explore popular projects built with Appwrite 🔍
Contributions:22 reviews, 45 PRs, 107 pushes in 1 year
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