Luc Huygen
CTO Co-Founder at CardGate
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorLuc Huygen is a seasoned payments technology leader and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building PCI-compliant gateways and merchant services. As CTO and Co-Founder of CURO Payments and long-time CTO at CardGate, he architects and maintains scalable payment platforms and back-office systems for webshops across the Netherlands. He runs his own firm DialXS BV, blending hands-on engineering with product development and operational responsibility. Known for pragmatic, security-first implementations, he pairs deep payments domain expertise with a founder’s appetite for practical, revenue-driving solutions. Luc’s GitHub tagline—"Dé kassa voor je webshop"—underscores his focus on delivering real-world checkout and merchant tooling rather than abstract experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (38)
klarna10
mercadopago10
omnipay10
payment-service9
visa9
api-client9
bitcoin9
payment-gateway9
paypal9
client-library9
payment-integration9
sdk9
payment9
api9
payment-processing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cardgate/x-cart
Feb 2018 - Feb 2025
CardGate module for X-Cart
Contributions:11 releases, 33 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 years 1 month
cart
cardgate/omnipay-cardgate
Jun 2015 - Jan 2020
Cardgate gateway for the Omnipay PHP payment processing library
Contributions:4 releases, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 8 months
paymentsomnipayphpmercadopagopayment-gateway
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