Luke Wilde
Senior Software Engineer at tem
Lewes, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Wilde is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack web and HTML5 game experiences for clients including the BBC, LEGO, and Selfridges. He blends Node.js, PHP and TypeScript expertise with hands-on work in serverless architectures, performance optimisation and CI/CD to deliver scalable, production-grade systems. Luke has led teams and introduced tooling and patterns that materially reduced developer time and improved reliability, including cutting Lambda cold starts from 4s to under 1s. Beyond commercial work he contributes to notable open-source systems like the Jakt programming language—improving its typechecker and lexer to harden runtime safety and error reporting. Based in Lewes, England, he pairs a games-first creative sensibility with rigorous engineering discipline to solve pragmatic performance and architecture challenges.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Cornwall CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at Bournemouth UniversityWallingford school, Oxon
Github Skills (11)
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error-handling10
programming-language10
type-checking10
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lexical-analysis10
language-design10
type-check10
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jak10
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SerenityOS/jakt
May 2022 - May 2022
The Jakt Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the typechecker and lexer components of the Jakt programming language. They focused on improving the language's robustness by addressing potential runtime errors, such as out-of-bounds access in the lexer and type errors related to void types in dictionaries, sets, arrays, and tuples. The user also implemented enhanced error reporting, adding hints to pinpoint the source of type errors and redefinitions.
programming-languagejaktserenityos
Lubrsi/serenityos-web-changelog
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Website that produces a digest of SerenityOS commits.
Contributions:7 reviews, 80 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 4 months
commitsdigestserenityos
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