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Luke McIlwaine on the Northern Ireland coast as waves break over the rocks

Full-stack engineer · .NET · TypeScript · Azure

Luke McIlwaine

Eight years building reliable, scalable products, and growing the engineers who build them. Based in Northern Ireland.

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Luke McIlwaine outdoors with his dog at golden hour

About

I'm Luke, a full-stack engineer with eight years building production software across the .NET, TypeScript, and Azure stack. My day-to-day spans hands-on programming, leading development teams, and architecting features from first principles, turning fuzzy requirements into systems that are clean, scalable, and genuinely nice to work with.

Beyond shipping code, I care about the people who write it. I've designed and run academy programmes that take new software engineers from their first commit to confident, contributing members of a team.

What I do

Engineering · Leadership · Mentoring

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Full-stack engineering

.NET, TypeScript and Azure. Eight years turning ideas into reliable, scalable production systems, front to back, cloud to client.

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Technical leadership

Leading development and architecting features end-to-end, from first principles through to delivery, without losing sight of the details.

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Mentoring & academies

Designing and running academy programmes that grow new engineers into confident, capable contributors.

Beyond the code

Off the keyboard, on the water.

I'm the current Junior Coach Lead for Northern Ireland Sailing, helping the next generation of sailors find their feet and their wind. The same things that make great software make great sailing: preparation, calm under pressure, and a love of getting the details right.

Connect

Let's talk.

Got a project, a role, or a question about engineering or sailing? My inbox is always open.

me@lukemcilwaine.com