I am an experienced software engineer, development manager, and technical leadership consultant specializing in startups and high growth companies.
I was a core member of two venture backed web/social l data startups that were acquired. I love to build products and I have a proven track record of delivery.
I have launched a number of high profile web, analytics, and mobile products, including the first cash games on Facebook, Jackpotjoy Mobile, Virgin Games, and PiQ, Peerindex's award winning social analytics big data platform.
I have also spent time as a W3C working group member.
Technical Advisor @ Working with a promising early stage enterprise messaging startup doing conversational interfaces and AI From November 2015 to Present (2 months) London, United KingdomDirector @ Director of a technical advisory and development consultancy.
High profile clients include:
Peerindex - launching Peerindex's big data analytics platform on hootsuite.
LinkedGov - building cutting edge semantic web search tools using SPARQL
Visit London - building http://theculturediary.com
HSBC
Kimono - Techstars alumnus and promising enterprise chat startup From September 2009 to Present (6 years 4 months) Engineering Manager, Software Architect @ Ran a cross functional Agile Engineering team, building out Peerindex's big data platform, including an elastic search cluster containing over 300 million twitter users.
Peerindex was subsequently acquired by Brandwatch in December 2014. From April 2014 to November 2015 (1 year 8 months) Senior Java Developer @ Working as a full stack Java Developer at an award winning big data startup. Was a core member of the team that built out Peerindex's big data platform, PiQ. (Elasticsearch, Redshift, DynamoDB, Hadoop, Hive, Pig). From July 2013 to April 2014 (10 months) Java Team Lead @ Led a java development team consisting of 5 devs and 3 QAs. Responsible for technical design and development, interviews, and performance reviews.
Led one of two key teams that built the web application for BingoFriendzy and SlotsFriendzy - the first cash games on Facebook, for which I shared an award with another team lead. Both products won EGR Operator Innovation Awards.
We also successfully implemented on demand player migration for hundreds of thousands of users from the newly acquired Virgin Games site and launched JackpotJoy Mobile.
Also worked as a backend developer on a highly scalable distributed poker platform. From April 2012 to July 2013 (1 year 4 months) Java Developer @ Major part of the team that launched Jackpotjoy Sweden and Botemania, making major updates to jackpotjoy.com, sunbingo.com and other high profile transactional sites, and revamping refer a friend bonuses. From January 2011 to April 2012 (1 year 4 months) Information Systems Developer @ Worked on semantic web development, Java development, and web development in a small team at a personal/social data startup which was subsequently acquired by Experian. From December 2007 to February 2010 (2 years 3 months) Analyst @ Including a stint as a Java Developer at incubated mobile advertising startup Aditon From September 2006 to December 2007 (1 year 4 months)
MSci, Theoretical Physics, 2:1 @ University College London, U. of London From 2001 to 2005 Luke Wilson-Mawer is skilled in: Apache Spark, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Start-ups, Java, Agile Methodologies, Web Development, Java Enterprise Edition, REST, Scrum, Web Services, Software Development, Web Applications, JavaScript, Team Leadership
Websites:
http://www.lukewm.me