Summary
Sam Luu is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with over a decade of experience delivering robust systems across Go, Python, C++, Java, Perl, Tcl, Bash and SQL. He currently builds payments and subscription services at Kape Technologies, leading initiatives to migrate legacy card processing to third-party providers and architecting a Redis-backed entitlements cache with Terraform and Kafka-driven invalidation. Previously at Just Eat Takeaway.com, he led a department-wide migration to GitHub Actions and built internal tools for order and menu management. His career spans GlobalSign, Fidessa, FactSet, Thought Machine, and Globality, with hands-on work in PKI, real-time data feeds, multi-tenant systems and streaming architectures. He earned a First Class Honours BSc in Computer Science from the University of Southampton and is known for turning complex requirements into reliable, scalable software solutions.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of Southampton
Poole Grammar School
French, German, English, Spanish