Luke Daley is a Principal Engineer with Gradleware. At Gradleware Luke works to make Gradle an even better way to build and helps teams reach new levels of project automation and quality. When he's not working on Gradle, you'll find Luke hacking on other projects in the Groovy ecosystem like Grails (a Groovy web development framework), Spock (a next generation testing framework for the JVM) and Geb (a productivity focussed Groovy browser automation tool).

With a solid background in Enterprise Automation, Luke believes strongly that tools can and should empower software professionals to achieve and innovate, which puts him right at home at Gradleware.

Taking a break from the kangaroos and koalas of Australia, Luke is currently living the expat in London life and you'll often find him talking about Gradle and other topics at conferences and user groups throughout Europe and the World.