Luke Hutscal

Luke Hutscal is a Principal Developer at Clio, a legal practice management software company.13 He previously held the position of Director of Engineering for code infrastructure at Clio, where he worked with three managers of infrastructure code and also ran the mobile team for about a year.1

Luke is known for his expertise in building and improving things, both with teams and personally.1 He has a strong focus on the process of achieving goals and is self-educated.1 Prior to his role at Clio, Luke worked at Shopify and Testflight.2

In his current role, Luke is part of a team responsible for making Clio a world-class place to write Ruby.5 He thinks deeply about developer workflows and how to help people ship better products faster.5 Luke has also written about using test suites to educate developers and create guard rails in codebases.45

As of January 2025, Luke continues to be an influential figure in the software development industry, particularly in the legal tech sector.