Luke S. Phillips

I oversee four teams, across three technical platforms and across three timezones; collectively these teams are responsible for restaurant data, scheduled availability, delivery areas, and restaurant operational tooling.

My overarching goal has been to consolidate these domains on the Just Eat and Takeaway platform; aiming for one team owning a single set of services for each domain, enabling the domains to move forward faster and reducing duplication. I've been developing transition plans following the strangler fig pattern and working closely with product managers and stakeholders to ensure they understand the technical constaints and existing behaviors that downstream systems require to be maintained.

Additionally, I collaborate with guilds and principal engineers to shape platform guidance, notably around asynchronous messaging, and work with my teams to implement them. I make time to produce proof-of-concepts and experiment with new technologies, enabling me to give my teams more informed guidance. Furthermore, I ensure that my teams have the necessary time to work on larger technical initiatives by feeding into the delivery planning process.

Some examples of what I've worked on are:

• OneApp

  I contributed to the first phase of consolidating the Just Eat and Takeaway platforms that aims to provide a single customer experience across all markets while maintaining the existing back-office systems. I designed transitional components that ensured changes made to restaurants on the Takeaway platform appeared on the Just Eat platform; utilizing emerging technologies such as Kafka and Kafka Connect.

• Serverless Guild

  I manage the Serverless Guild, working with AWS and engineers across the business to foster a knowledge-sharing environment. The guild provides support and produces best practice documentation and guides for working with serverless technologies, such as Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions, and API Gateway. Through my work, I've been able to facilitate collaboration and encourage the adoption of serverless technologies across the organization.

As a senior full-stack engineer, I contributed to multiple autonomous teams building products on the AWS platform before becoming the tech lead for the team responsible for restaurant information, scheduled availability, and delivery areas, which was central to many critical business processes.

In this role, I was the team's technical point of contact and was responsible for taking business requirements and designing scalable solutions. I worked with my team to build, test, deploy, and support these solutions in production. In addition, I managed the team's technical debt backlog and on-call rota.

I emphasized open communication, fostering an environment where anyone in the team could get involved in a problem. I also enjoyed sharing my newfound knowledge that I gained from being an active participant in guilds with the team through presentations, tech demos, and direct mentoring, encouraging others to do the same.

Some examples of what I've worked on were:

• Restaurant Performance

  I played a key role in developing an event-driven system that aggregated partner order and review data from across the platform to generate a performance score. This score was easily accessible by partners and included improvement recommendations while also affecting the partner's search ranking.

• Just Log

  As the lead contributor, I supported the development of a lightweight and extensible JavaScript library for logging. This library enables quick and easy pushing of logs to multiple sources, including Just Eat's ELK stack. I also provided valuable support teams across the business, ensuring successful implementation of the library.

• Orderpad Lite

  I was the lead engineer for a progressive web application, I enabled restaurants to continue taking orders even when they experienced Orderpad hardware issues. I was selected for this project due to my extensive front-end experience and was able to deliver a viable product within a month, complete with a comprehensive test suite and hand-over documentation.

• Restaurant Creation Service

  I designed an event-driven service that orchestrates the setup of new restaurants joining the platform, greatly reducing manual effort in the onboarding process while ensuring they conform to compliance checks before activation. Utilizing serverless technology, the service is extensible and allows for efficient development of new quality gates and market-specific flows.

Worked as a full stack web developer in an agile team; building and testing highly accessible, responsive and cross platform web applications on the All 4 platform.

Some examples of what I've worked on were:

• Channel4.com

  I lead the development on the responsive redesign of the Channel4.com website. This involved migrating away from a monolithic Java application to smaller more manageable applications written using Node.js that consumed Channel 4's central web services.

• Font Delivery Service

  A Node.js service that hosts and delivers the Channel 4 fonts to all of our web-based clients as securely as possible. Starting as a personal project, it replaced a 3rd party service called FontDeck, saving Channel 4 £15,000 a year.

• Chromecast

  Liaised with Google to create the Chromecast receiver and the sender for the Channel 4 website.

Whilst studying at the University of Westminster, I was an intern at Channel 4 where I focused on integrating University modules into the workplace whilst working on projects for the business.

Some examples of what I've worked on were:

• 4oD

  I was put on the 4oD team to develop the front end of the the 2011 refresh of the 4oD website.

• 4Emergencies

  An SMS-based emergency notification system, built in C# .NET and MS SQL, allowing the HR department to ask for the status of all employees with a single SMS message or email.