I am Luke Rapkin

Software Engineer - Brief Your Market

At Brief Your Market I worked as a software engineer implementing features in the front end and back end of the brief your market core project. Some of my responsibilities included adding, updating, and removing data from MySQL databases, updating functionality to the main management website, creating REST API endpoints for the external API.

Unity developer - The Virtulab

I was a feature developer for Virtuworx remote working platform. I was responsible for front and back-end client to server functionality via the PUN2 framework. I was also responsible for the creation of the STOMP client server interface that was used with real time data synchronization, messaging, and live streaming.

Lead programmer / Multiplayer Developer - Global Game Jam 2020 – Birmingham

In February 2020 I represented my university at the Global Game Jam 2020 in Birmingham. With a small team of people, we came to develop a game called “Parachutes Sold Separately”. I was the lead programmer for this project and took on roles of implementing multiplayer functionality and fixing any game breaking bugs. Some of these bugs included a complete overhaul / rewrite of the gameplay mechanics mere hours before the deadline

That project was written in C# with the Unity Game Engine and was rated in the top 10 games of the Jam on site.

Freelance Software Engineer - Fiverr

I worked as a freelance programmer on Fiverr and Freelance writing discord and twitch bots in node.js

Some of the bots were informational bots that web scrapped information off a webpage and posted it in chat. Others went on to handle and automate the moderation of servers with thousands of people inside.

I have also written front end and back end applications for clients! I've had a total of 13 clients! I have also been rated 5 star.
• 10 clients rated
• 1 client on freeelancer.com

Games Development - Client: Kris Adcock @ Rareware Ltd

I created a prototype game and pitched the idea. What I learned from this experience was to work quickly to meet very short deadlines. Skills I developed were to think fast when it comes to brainstorming ideas. I got better at using Java, Lua and XML because those were the languages I decided to use. I also learned to programming efficiently so that the software did not run slow on other computers.

Lead developer - Team Aliquam

I was working for Team Aliquam back in 2014, I was the lead developer on the project Paradigm. I worked there for just over a year, I gained experience in team working along with leadership, it also helped me develop my skills more with C#, Java and HTML.