Luke Watson
Senior Devops Engineer at Roadpost
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLuke Watson is a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of experience delivering scalable infrastructure, automation, and reliability across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments. He has led DevOps and build-tools initiatives at Roadpost, Invafresh, GEOTAB, FleetCarma, and SOTI, with hands-on expertise in Jenkins/Hudson, Maven, TFS, and REST API design. His broad technical toolkit spans frontend and backend languages (HTML5, CSS3, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, SQL) and includes Android app development and web frameworks such as NANCY. Luke combines strong systems thinking with SDLC discipline, agile practices, and database management, backed by formal education in Web Design and Computer Systems Analysis. He thrives on designing, building, and maintaining reliable deployments and infrastructure at scale, bringing a hands-on, cross-functional approach to engineering teams. Early in his career he contributed as an Android Player and Eclipse developer at Research In Motion, laying a foundation for his systems-level engineering and rapid learning.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Degree, Computer Systems Analysis, Degree, Computer Systems Analysis at Sheridan CollegeWeb Design CCE, Web Design CCE at McMaster University
English
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Github Skills (110)
client-library9
sdk9
headphones9
elasticsearch9
kibana9
octopus9
azure8
runscope8
api8
terraform8
test-kitchen8
api-client8
papyrus8
kitchen8
plugin8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
watsonlu/IdentifyingPlants
Feb 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 6 months
watsonlu/incredibuild_cookbook
Sep 2016 - Nov 2018
A small cookbook for installing incredibuild
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
cookbookinstallingchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
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