Luke Wesley-holley
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Horsforth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Wesley-holley is an Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience building and leading web-focused engineering teams from startup to enterprise. He combines hands-on front-end and full-stack skills—demonstrated by contributions to high-profile projects like the elementary.io and ubuntu.com websites—with product-minded engineering leadership at Canonical and as an early engineer at Pave. Luke has deep experience bootstrapping core infrastructure (feature flags, permissions, OAuth) and improving UX through CSS, HTML, and JavaScript refinements. Based in Horsforth, England, he also produces a children’s podcast, showing a creative streak that complements his technical craft and people-first management style.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Multimedia Technology, BSc, Multimedia Technology at Leeds Beckett University
English
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
site-design10
website-design10
website-development10
javascript8
php6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/ubuntu.com
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
The official website for the Ubuntu operating system
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily worked on the front-end aspects of the Ubuntu website, making changes to various HTML templates. They updated the IoT download page, including changes to the supported platforms section, and updated copy related to openstack consulting and the main openstack page. Their commits indicate a focus on content updates, layout adjustments, and general UI improvements to enhance the website's user experience.
operating-systemoperatingweb-and-designubuntu
elementary/website
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
The elementary.io website
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 19 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the elementary.io website. Their work involved fixing UI bugs, implementing CSS changes for responsiveness, and adjusting the visual presentation of elements like search terms and download buttons. They also made modifications to both `home.css` and `main.css` to optimize the user interface and incorporated changes to the Javascript and PHP code, indicating a level of full-stack integration in a frontend context. These contributions demonstrate their focus on improving the website's overall look and feel.
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