Luke Watson
Senior Devops Engineer at Roadpost
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLuke Watson is a Senior DevOps/Site Reliability engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for analytics and IoT-focused companies. He blends hands-on DevOps expertise—CI/CD with Jenkins/Hudson, Maven, TFS, and branching strategies—with strong software engineering skills across C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby and SQL, enabling him to span from build tooling to production services. His background includes roles at Research In Motion, SOTI, FleetCarma, GEOTAB and Invafresh, where he moved from build tooling and Android development into SRE responsibilities, reflecting a practical progression from developer to operations-driven engineering. Comfortable across Windows, Linux and macOS, he designs and queries relational databases and implements REST APIs using frameworks like Nancy, while also shipping Android apps and web UI work. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Luke is quick to learn new languages and platforms and has a track record of turning developer-focused tooling into reliable operational workflows that reduce friction between teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programmer Computer Programming, Computer Programmer Computer Programming at Sheridan CollegeWeb Design CCE, Web Design CCE at McMaster University
English
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Github Skills (103)
client-library9
sdk9
headphones9
elasticsearch9
kibana9
octopus9
azure8
runscope8
api8
terraform8
test-kitchen8
api-client8
papyrus8
kitchen8
plugin8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
watsonlu/IdentifyingPlants
Feb 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 6 months
watsonlu/incredibuild_cookbook
Sep 2016 - Nov 2018
A small cookbook for installing incredibuild
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
cookbookinstallingchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
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