David Looi
Director Of Engineering at CoinJar
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Looi is a seasoned engineering leader based in Melbourne with over a decade of experience building resilient, cloud-native platforms in FinTech and high-growth SaaS. As Director of Engineering at CoinJar he combines hands-on architecture skills with strategic leadership, driving secure, low-latency crypto infrastructure and cross-functional teams to maintain >99.9% uptime. He has a track record of hiring and scaling backend teams, establishing engineering standards and observability, and navigating regulatory requirements like MiCAR, GDPR and DORA while operating as interim CIO for European VASP operations. Earlier roles at Culture Amp and Nokia sharpened his expertise in event-sourced systems, large-data synchronization, SSO and high-performance directory services. Known for pragmatic technical stewardship, he often blends coding, mentoring and product thinking to turn complex requirements into auditable, production-ready systems. He holds a BEng in Electronics and Communications from the University of Nottingham and brings uncommon experience building protocol-level solutions and CI tooling in telco-grade environments.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Nottingham
English, Malay, Chinese
Github Skills (68)
python10
trading10
mvc10
authentication10
trading-bot10
ruby10
cryptocurrency10
crypto10
javascript10
merchant10
cryptocurrencies10
exchange10
api10
html10
bitcoin10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
coinjar/ccxt
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
A JavaScript / Python / PHP cryptocurrency trading API with support for more than 120 bitcoin/altcoin exchanges
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 1 month
exchangepythonexchangescryptocurrency-tradingaltcoin
cultureamp/ruby-saml
Nov 2015 - Feb 2018
SAML SSO for Ruby
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 3 months
test-kitchenrailssaml-ssorubysaml
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