Luke Watts
Lead Software Engineer at Ampowr
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLuke Watts is a lead software engineer with 12 years of experience building developer-focused security products and guiding distributed teams across Europe. He has risen through engineering and interim director roles at Snyk, shaping security data and intelligence efforts used by over 400k users to make vulnerabilities actionable. Equally comfortable full-stack, Luke contributes to open-source projects like Elder.js and community platforms, demonstrating attention to maintainability, testing, and front-end UX. He blends hands-on security engineering (notably on the Snyk CLI) with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and introducing experiment-driven approaches to improve product adoption. Based in Leiden, he prefers pragmatic CI/CD delivery and has a background in new media and design, which informs his focus on developer experience. Luke is actively building distributed teams and welcomes engineers who want to move fast while keeping projects secure.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons New Media, Graphic Design, BA Hons New Media, Graphic Design at University for the Creative Arts
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (28)
snyk10
javascript10
vulnerability-scanners10
static-site-generator10
jes10
typescript10
ui-design10
security10
uid10
go10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
jtest10
vulnerabilities10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ONEARMY/community-platform
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
A platform to build useful communities that aim to tackle global problems
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 957 reviews, 1132 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily focused on front-end development, implementing UI components and integrating them into the platform. Their contributions included adding new features like a Discord link, implementing a new section for user profile features, and refactoring existing UI elements. They also worked on back-end and testing to make sure the features will run properly.
climate-impactreactaimtackleproblems
snyk/cli
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:231 reviews, 21 commits, 445 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Luke contributed to the Snyk CLI project by implementing and fixing features related to security scanning and vulnerability detection. Their commits focused on removing update prompts, reverting unwanted features, and adding support for new severity levels in the scanning process. The user also worked on URL generation for different types of vulnerabilities.
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