# Luke Peacock > Software Engineer, Manager Location: Fremont, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lukepeacock Engineering leader with experience in a wide range of technologies, products, and teams. 6 years managing engineering teams consisting of backend, frontend, SRE/DevOps, and QA. 15 years as an engineer creating products and solutions across backend, frontend, desktop, mobile, and embedded. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ kimkim Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Engineering Manager, Platform @ Motive Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Responsible for scaling and managing teams of SWEs, SREs, and DBAs as the first manager in Platform. Led a mix of backend engineering, site reliability, product, and developer productivity teams for a rapidly growing org, while ensuring the performance and stability of user facing systems. * Hired and managed the IoT team, responsible for services providing real-time communication, remote configuration, and firmware/package updates for Motive hardware devices running in vehicles. Partnered with stakeholders across Product, Hardware, and Embedded teams to define requirements and the roadmap. Worked closely with engineers on the design and release of the original stack. * Managed the Freight Marketplace eng team to launch the Motive Smart Load Board. Partnered with Product and led the engineering team consisting of backend engineers (Go + RoR), frontend (Angular), Data Science, and QA. * Hired and managed the first SRE team, which built and maintained all AWS infra. The team also rolled out the first K8s infra to support the migration to Go services. * Hired and managed DBAs who oversaw all org databases, primarily Postgres and RDS. ### Director of Engineering, Web @ Blurb Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area * Managed a team of 5-7 full-time Software and Test Engineers doing front-end and full stack web development, along with several contractors, and project based offshore contracting teams. * Lead a migration from legacy front-end tech stacks based in Ruby on Rails (v2), Flex, and Drupal, to more modern and maintainable stacks built on React and Jekyll with Java and Rails on the back end * Built and managed products using React, Ruby On Rails, Jekyll, Ember, Backbone, Flex, Capybara, Selenium, TestCafe, CasperJS, Java * Hands-on with Test Engineers to build and maintain our CI and release pipelines in Jenkins * Managed all personnel resourcing ### DevOps Manager @ Blurb Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area * Maintained continuity and stability for the business while rapidly re-staffing the full-time team and securing short-term contractors * Took over on-call status, fixing and triaging emergency alerts * Improved communication and documentation between DevOps and the rest of the organization ### Lead Software Engineer @ Blurb Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area * Lead the Engineering Services Architecture team tasked with improving the development experience at Blurb and building solutions for problems that fell outside the scope of other teams. * Continually improved and maintained many of our build and release pipelines in Jenkins, moving time consuming builds into AWS to scale our build system. * Worked with TechOps to create a push-button, full-environment creation system that provisioned and deployed the entire Blurb test/production environment with every server and database. Leveraged Puppet, Capistrano, CloudStack, Ruby, F5 Big-IP API * Created an integrated translation system with Github, Gengo Jenkins, and Ruby such that a pull request comment of, “Jenkins please translate this”, resulted in in-place translations being committed to the PR ### Senior Software Engineer @ Blurb Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked on a number of projects and technologies across engineering including: * iPhone application and accompanying back-end services and supporting web pages. Objective-C, Ruby on Rails, jQuery * Online book making tool (Emachine). Ember.js Ruby on Rails. * Assorted web pages. Ruby on Rails, jQuery * Client-side book making tool (BookWright) as well as the event logging and crash servers. Qt, C++, Node.js, OpenResty, Ruby * Built many of the automated deploy scripts and continuous deployment pipelines. Capistrano, Ruby, Jenkins ### Software Engineer @ eBay Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 Engineer on the Rich Media Center of Excellence team (formerly known as Vuvox). * Built a Flex content authoring and viewing tool for use on an eBay Motors micro-site that allowed car enthusiasts and professionals to post high quality, dynamic do-it-yourself guides with photos, videos, and text. * Helped design and create front-end components for dynamic category pages such as “DVD’s & Movies” and “Clothing, Shoes, and Accessories”. * Integrated the Vuvox collage tool into the eBay Motors seller user flow so that sellers could create collages of photos, video, and music to display their cars or car parts, and embed the collages on their eBay listing pages. Also built a self-contained, eBay branded version of the Vuvox web site that was linked to from the eBay seller flow. * Worked with designers and product managers to build high fidelity prototypes of next-gen eBay experiences. ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Vuvox Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 The only full time engineer in a startup of 5 people that was acquired by eBay after 2 years. * Built nearly every aspect of the technology stack along with the CTO. * Provisioned and maintained all of the linux servers that ran the Ruby on Rails, Perl, and custom media servers. * Wrote a custom C++ media server to support real-time video editing from a Flex web client * Wrote most of the Ruby on Rails and Perl back-end services and web pages ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Vulcan Research, LLC Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 C++ developer for cross-platform VoIP solutions built on SIP ### Software Engineer @ iTelco Communications, Inc. Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 Worked on various client and server components of a VoIP conferencing solution, including writing the SIP stack for the primary conferencing server, and an ActiveX web phone browser plugin ### Software Engineer @ HearMe Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 Developed a C++ SIP VoIP client and worked on a Java applications server ## Education ### BS in Computer Science California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/luke-peacock-200 --- Source: https://flows.cv/lukepeacock JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lukepeacock/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10