Sam Lu
Manager, Software Apps Engineering at Yahoo Sports
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolSam Lu is a mobile-first engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and shipping iOS apps and guiding teams from concept to polished customer experiences. Currently Manager of Software Apps Engineering at Yahoo Sports, he has a track record of improving product quality and release cadence—most notably helping a UK supermarket loyalty app climb from one to four App Store stars and delivering 25 releases for WestJet. He blends hands-on iOS development (Robots and Pencils, wagr, Mobility Quotient) with pragmatic product thinking, starting from the user experience and working back to technology. Based in Calgary, Sam pairs technical stewardship with people leadership, code review discipline, and a penchant for iterative improvement. Outside of work he channels the same craft mindset into woodworking, cooking, and competitive ice hockey, hinting at a taste for precision and teamwork beyond the keyboard.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at The University of Calgary
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Github Skills (62)
switch10
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ios9
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aria29
android9
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macos9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
senmu/download-json-property-action
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Download a JSON payload, extract the property you want, and expose it as a result to be used for the next step
Contributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 21 commits in 2 years 6 months
payloadjsonexposejson-payload
senmu/senmu.github.io
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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