Lok Ku
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Luxembourg
Summary
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Top SchoolLok Ku is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating high-traffic web platforms, currently a Software Development Engineer at Amazon based in Luxembourg. He cut his teeth at 500 Startups and Lifehack.org, where he owned front-end features and DevOps for a site reaching over 12 million monthly readers. His background spans React-driven UI work, backend systems for content scheduling and newsletters, and hands-on DevOps—automating testing, scaling clusters, and integrating AWS services like SES and Lambda. Known for migrating legacy stacks to modern tooling and shrinking test infrastructure and data footprints, he blends product-focused engineering with operational rigor. He holds strong academic foundations from Tsinghua University and CUHK and brings a practical, metrics-minded approach to shipping reliable web experiences.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, institute for interdisciplinary information sciences, Bachelor's Degree, institute for interdisciplinary information sciences at Tsinghua UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (182)
python10
hexo10
terraform10
javascript-framework10
infrastructure10
videojs10
creative-commons10
cpp10
questions-and-answers10
javascript10
duktape10
html10
html5-video10
netsuite10
aws-cloud10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
199911/hls-video-sharing
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 27 days
199911/put-angry-face-on-all-fb-posts
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:64 commits, 17 PRs, 40 pushes in 8 months
reactionchromefacebookfacebook-pageposts
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