Summary
Luke Barnes is a results-driven software engineering consultant with a decade of full-stack experience spanning Java, JavaScript, and mobile development. He has led critical payment libraries and managed cloud deployment strategies (AWS S3/CloudFront) at Digital River, while maintaining 100% unit test coverage for over five years and driving robust CI/CD through Jenkins. A strong advocate of OO design and design patterns, he mentors peers, reviews PRs, and champions test-driven development across agile teams. He has built and deployed microservices using Spring Boot, Node.js, React, and Kotlin, with experience in MongoDB and Cassandra. He currently shapes engineering outcomes at LivTech, bringing a practical, production-focused mindset from large enterprise projects to consulting. Based in Minneapolis, Luke earned a Bachelor's in Computer Software Engineering from the University of the Sunshine Coast and even built an Android app, Fitness Fanatic, in his spare time.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of the Sunshine Coast