Luke Benstead
Head Of Engineering at Potato
Three Rivers, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Benstead is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of hands-on experience across embedded systems, backend services and web development, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Potato London Ltd. He is a C++ and Python specialist who progressed from senior developer to technical director and now leads engineering strategy and delivery. Luke combines deep systems knowledge—having migrated legacy infrastructures to cloud-based Ubuntu VMs on AWS—with practical product sense from hobbyist game development and open source contributions. Notably, he added Node.js-based Sass/SCSS processing and documentation improvements to the popular webassets Python project, reflecting a mix of pragmatic tooling work and developer ergonomics. Based in Three Rivers, England, he pairs broad language experience (C++, Python, Java, C# and more) with a track record of simplifying complex stacks and shipping maintainable solutions.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc (Hons), Bsc (Hons) at University of PortsmouthBTEC National Diploma, Computer Studies, BTEC National Diploma, Computer Studies at Isle of Wight College
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Github Skills (15)
webassets10
python10
sc9
scs9
nodejs9
css9
subprocess8
documentation7
algorithm6
android-ndk6
unit-testing6
ant6
android6
compiler-construction6
java6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
miracle2k/webassets
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Asset management for Python web development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the asset management library by implementing new features related to processing CSS/SCSS files. They implemented a Node.js-based Sass filter and its SCSS counterpart, enabling the use of Node Sass for CSS compilation. Additionally, they modified the documentation and added a string replacement filter, enhancing the project's capabilities and documentation.
python-web
potatolondon/djangae
Nov 2013 - Jul 2022
The best way to run Django on Google Cloud. This project is now on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/potato-oss/djangae/djangae
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 2437 commits in 8 years 9 months
djangaedjangogitlabgoogle-cloudappengine
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