Jerry Luk
Co-Founder And President at Firework
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJerry Luk is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and product leader with more than 15 years of experience, currently Co-Founder and President of Firework, where he helps steer a global open-web video platform since 2017. A serial entrepreneur and technologist with hands-on engineering roots, he previously led mobile product strategy at Edmodo, scaling offerings and driving reliability through microservices. Earlier, he co-founded Presdo and led engineering and operations, delivering Presdo Match and other products that secured strategic partnerships including Salesforce. As one of LinkedIn's early builders, he helped create LinkedIn Mobile and drove rapid product-to-market growth that shaped the platform's traffic and monetization. In addition to product leadership, he has contributed to open-source, notably implementing the Google OAuth2 strategy for OmniAuth, reflecting a knack for integrating security with developer ecosystems. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and is based in Mountain View, California.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (High Honors), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (High Honors), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Salesian English School, Hong Kong
English
Github Skills (7)
user-authentication10
authentication10
oauth-210
omniauth10
ruby10
api9
apim9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
omniauth/omniauth
May 2011 - Aug 2011
OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jerry primarily contributed to the implementation of Google OAuth2 authentication strategy within the OmniAuth framework. Their work included adding the Google OAuth2 strategy, modifying the core framework to accommodate the new strategy, and integrating it into the codebase. They also addressed issues like adding credential expiration, and updating the code base for OAuth2 gem changes. These modifications enhance OmniAuth's capabilities by integrating with Google's authentication system.
authentication-systemrack-middlewarerailsauthenticationomniauth
jerryluk/username_suggester
Jun 2010 - Aug 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 2 years 2 months
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