Ken Lu
Senior Software Development Engineer - Edge Platform
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKen Lu is a Senior Software Development Engineer focused on edge platform engineering, with 9 years of experience building and operating highly available systems that handle millions of requests per minute for Expedia Group brands. He sits at the intersection of platform engineering, SRE, and infrastructure, driving reliability, performance, security, and cost-conscious architectural trade-offs for first-hop traffic systems like reverse proxies, CDNs and bot detection. Ken regularly leads ambiguous, multi-quarter projects and mentors engineers while balancing production support and pragmatic decision-making in failure-sensitive environments. His technical toolkit spans Akamai, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kotlin, TypeScript and React, reflecting a full-stack understanding applied to large-scale edge challenges. Trained in Data Science (MSc) and with early experience in data-heavy reconciliation and analytics, he blends operational rigor with data-informed engineering to improve system leverage and long-term reliability.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Data Science and Analytics, Master of Science (MSc), Data Science and Analytics at Royal Holloway, University of LondonBachelor of Business Administration (BBA), International Business, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), International Business at Soochow University
Chinese, English, Mandarin
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Github contributions (5)
luluuuluuuuu/crypto-analysis
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:97 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 11 months
luluuuluuuuu/AAM
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 day
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