Luke Morton
Founder And CEO at First.cx
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Morton is a founder and CEO with 15 years of hands-on software leadership, currently building First, an AI hiring platform that dramatically reduces recruiter time while tripling roles managed per recruiter. Previously CTO and Executive Director at Made Tech, he scaled engineering and product teams from a handful to 500 and helped take the company public in 2021, while authoring four books on software practice and founding an on-the-job academy to widen access to tech careers. A coder since age 13, Luke blends deep technical chops—across Ruby, cloud platforms, CI/CD and open source—with strategic experience delivering public-sector and enterprise digital services. He’s an active advocate for AI and Web3, a pragmatic builder of inclusive hiring and training pipelines, and someone who pairs product-first leadership with founder-level execution. Not obvious from titles: he’s shipped software for seven startups, open-sourced company handbooks and training material, and remains deeply involved in developer experience and hiring strategy.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
St. John PayneBTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners, BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners at Chelmsford College
English
Github Skills (121)
hybrid10
browser10
rake-task10
react-framework10
compiler10
static-site-generator10
marketplace10
ssg10
vercel10
nextjs10
server-rendering10
react10
multi-tenant10
rest9
gatsby9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lukemorton/republic
Aug 2017 - Jan 2026
Contributions:20 PRs, 47 pushes, 14 branches in 8 years 6 months
reactcontrollersroutingrouting-controllersrouter
madetech/cf-deploy
Jun 2014 - Apr 2016
Rake tasks for deploying to CloudFoundry v6+
Contributions:98 commits, 23 pushes, 4 tags in 1 year 10 months
cloud-foundryrake-task
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