Luke Stoodley
Design, Build & Engineer Greatness.
Experience
Co-founder & Full-Stack Engineer
TopStats.gg
Jun 2020 - Present
Formerly DBL Statistics · Remote
Gaming analytics platform serving 2,000+ monthly active users across web, mobile and API.
- Build and maintain the platform across web (Next.js), mobile (Expo React Native) and API (Fastify) in a TypeScript monorepo.
- Migrated over 2.2 billion rows from MongoDB to TimescaleDB during a stack change.
- Built staging and production auto-deployment with Docker for continuous development.
- Run highly available production infrastructure on Hetzner (Docker Swarm, Kong Gateway) for 2,000+ monthly active users.
- Integrated with the Top.gg GraphQL API and investigated vote-botting patterns to protect data integrity.
Software Engineer, Integrations
Orca Scan
May 2025 - Oct 2026
Full-Stack · Remote
Integrations engineer who cut infrastructure costs and built real-time analytics on ClickHouse.
- Moved CI/CD to self-hosted runners, saving $3,000+ per month and speeding up builds.
- Moved Grafana to a dedicated server and stood up ClickHouse, saving $300+ per month.
- Built a worker to migrate analytics from a bespoke system to ClickHouse incrementally, enabling fast real-time analytics.
- Built ClickHouse materialized views for funnel analysis and reconciled event counts between MongoDB and ClickHouse.
- Built a barcode/product data aggregation system with browser emulation for UPC/EAN lookups; analysed ~10k failed lookups to find sourcing gaps for East and Southeast Asian GS1 prefixes.
Software Engineer
Orca Scan
Dec 2022 - Jan 2024
Full-Stack Development & Testing · Cambridge (Remote)
Worked in an Agile team of 6 developers building and shipping features to paying customers.
- Implemented a QA pipeline running browser tests on every PR; migrated existing tests from Cucumber to Cypress.
- Added pre-commit checks across repositories.
Software Engineer
Cloud Heroes
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Full-time · Trowbridge, UK
Built internal systems and customer WordPress sites, and maintained customer servers.
- Built internal systems including the company intranet, a service quoting system and support team tooling.
- Designed and developed customer WordPress sites and supported customers with backend website issues.
- Ran security update maintenance for VPS and dedicated server customers and managed Plesk systems.
Skills
Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptSQLPythonGoPHPGraphQL
Frontend
ReactNext.jsReact NativeExpo
Backend
Node.jsFastifyExpressREST APIsGraphQL APIs
Data
ClickHouseTimescaleDBPostgreSQLMongoDBGrafana
DevOps
DockerDocker SwarmDocker ComposeCI/CDGitHub Actions self-hosted runnersKong GatewayLinuxAWSHetzner
Testing
CypressBrowser testingQA pipelinesPre-commit checks
Other
AgileWordPressPleskCisco firewallsWindows domain administration
GitHub Stats
Repositories
52
Total Stars
9
Contributions
2491
Pull Requests
8
Issues
1
Followers
38
Blog
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