Dries Samyn
Software Engineer at Sparta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDries Samyn is a seasoned software engineer and architect based in London with over 20 years in software development and nearly a decade in senior engineering roles driving large-scale, distributed, multi-threaded systems. He combines deep expertise in OOP, Domain Driven Design, design patterns and pragmatic Agile practices (TDD/BDD, SCRUM, XP) with proven leadership as a team lead and principal engineer across finance and enterprise firms. His recent roles at R3, T. Rowe Price and Sparta highlight a focus on resilient, enterprise-grade architectures and delivery at scale. A strong communicator and collaborator, he thrives on translating complex domain requirements into maintainable, testable designs. Notably, his career path spans high-stakes financial systems and media organisations, giving him a rare blend of regulatory-aware engineering and product-minded craftsmanship.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MA Product Development, MA Product Development at Hogeschool Antwerpen
Dutch, English, French, Danish
Github Skills (114)
interoperability10
contract10
distributed-ledger10
database-management10
microservices10
cloud-native10
slf4j10
corda10
monitoring10
liquibase10
api10
database-migrations10
facade10
maintenance10
observability10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
driessamyn/kapper
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Kapper - A Dapper-like lightweight ORM for Kotlin
Contributions:5 releases, 138 PRs, 159 pushes in 4 months
driessamyn/deduplicater
Oct 2020 - Mar 2023
Find and manage duplicate files
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 16 PRs in 2 years 4 months
pythonduplicateclient-sidekeep-aliveduplicate-files
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