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I’m Rory Flukes, a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and delivering robust, high-performance full-stack applications. I thrive on architecting scalable systems, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and delivering product-focused features that improve reliability and velocity. I enjoy collaborating with product, security, and DevOps teams to drive maintainable, craft-focused engineering throughout the software lifecycle. I’m passionate about building and shipping SaaS solutions, mentoring teams on best practices, and continually refining the developer experience to ensure high-quality, scalable outcomes in fast-paced environments.…I’m Rory Flukes, a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and delivering robust, high-performance full-stack applications. I thrive on architecting scalable systems, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and delivering product-focused features that improve reliability and velocity. I enjoy collaborating with product, security, and DevOps teams to drive maintainable, craft-focused engineering throughout the software lifecycle. I’m passionate about building and shipping SaaS solutions, mentoring teams on best practices, and continually refining the developer experience to ensure high-quality, scalable outcomes in fast-paced environments.

Rory Flukes

Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, Back-End Developer, +2

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I’m Rory Flukes, a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and delivering robust, high-performance full-stack applications. I thrive on architecting scalable systems, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and delivering product-focused features that improve reliability and velocity. I enjoy collaborating with product, security, and DevOps teams to drive maintainable, craft-focused engineering throughout the software lifecycle. I’m passionate about building and shipping SaaS solutions, mentoring teams on best practices, and continually refining the developer experience to ensure high-quality, scalable outcomes in fast-paced environments.…I’m Rory Flukes, a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and delivering robust, high-performance full-stack applications. I thrive on architecting scalable systems, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and delivering product-focused features that improve reliability and velocity. I enjoy collaborating with product, security, and DevOps teams to drive maintainable, craft-focused engineering throughout the software lifecycle. I’m passionate about building and shipping SaaS solutions, mentoring teams on best practices, and continually refining the developer experience to ensure high-quality, scalable outcomes in fast-paced environments.

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I’m Rory Flukes, a Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and delivering robust, high-performance full-stack applications. I thrive on architecting scalable systems, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and delivering product-focused features that improve reliability and velocity. I enjoy collaborating with product, security, and DevOps teams to drive maintainable, craft-focused engineering throughout the software lifecycle.

I’m passionate about building and shipping SaaS solutions, mentoring teams on best practices, and continually refining the developer experience to ensure high-quality, scalable outcomes in fast-paced environments.

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Senior Software Engineer at SKYWARD FEDERAL

May 1, 2024 - Present

Owned the design and implementation of secure, high-performance full-stack applications for enterprise environments utilizing modern stack components: React, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS, prioritizing scalability and reliability. Drove 30% improvement in overall system scalability and backend reliability through API design enhancements, strategic caching, and CI/CD automation across cloud infrastructure. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to rapidly deliver mission-critical features, reducing release cycles by 20% and establishing high-quality architectural patterns for long-term maintainability.

Senior Software Engineer – Trading at JOCK MKT

December 1, 2022 - April 1, 2024

Directly contributed to full-stack development for the proprietary exchange & match engine, optimizing core logic to achieve up to 40% improvement in critical order execution speed. Spearheaded development of internal, high-fidelity React-based dashboards for monitoring automated market-making strategies, liquidity management, and real-time portfolio risk exposure. Refactored core backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, achieving a 20% reduction in average API response times and bolstering production stability.

Software Engineer at JOCK MKT

January 1, 2022 - December 1, 2022

Delivered full-stack features using Node.js, TypeScript, and React across multiple game modes, contributing to an 18% increase in overall user engagement. Implemented comprehensive alerting and monitoring via Datadog integration, improving infrastructure observability and proactive incident detection by 50%. Optimized real-time data pipelines and WebSocket flows, reducing overall database load by 30%.

Software Engineer at VIASAT

February 1, 2018 - January 1, 2022

Engineered a centralized administrative dashboard using React to manage chatbot features, toggle controls, and live A/B experiments. Established rigorous unit and integration tests with over 85% code coverage, improving deployment reliability. Built the core backend webhook processing engine using Node.js and TypeScript, handling millions of daily customer interactions. Created an automated system to translate complex flowcharts into functional logic, reducing feature development cycle time by 35%.

Software Engineer Intern (Full-Stack) at VIASAT

May 1, 2017 - August 1, 2017

Refactored legacy browser components into a modular, reusable Machine Learning platform, yielding a 20% gain in deployment efficiency. Developed and demonstrated a spam-detection ML model on the new platform, achieving verified classification accuracy greater than 90%.