Sammy Deveille

Technical Lead

ASP Events

Event website provider

Mar 2024 – Present Event Tech London

Infrastructure & Cost

• Deployed WAF firewall strategies for traffic filtering and threat protection
• Dockerised application layer for portability and consistency
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scanning, vulnerability tracking and automated deployment
• Optimized infrastructure spend, yielding annual savings

Delivery & Quality

• Transitioned legacy ColdFusion solution to Lucee open source
• Video compression pipeline for performance and cost reduction
• Refactored redundant code and improved automated test coverage
• Stress and load testing for performance benchmarking and optimisation

Team & Culture

• Transitioned team to adopt TDD and documentation-first practices for continuous improvement
• Mentored team, fostering skill growth and knowledge sharing

Head of Engineering

Springpod

Career guidance e-learning for students

Apr 2023 – Jan 2024 eLearning London

Delivery

• Product feature implementation including content delivery, identity federation, maintenance and support
• Architected SSO identity federation for UCAS partnership"

Team & Culture

• Introduced Scrum in a team of 6 to align effort with company strategy
• Streamlined documentation and processes across teams

Chief Technology Officer

Glisser

Real-time interaction platform for live and virtual events

Apr 2015 – Jan 2023 Event Tech London

Strategy & Growth

• Joined as employee #3, built prototype into market-ready product through various seeds, securing Big Four clients
• Defined and executed technology roadmap from early prototype to enterprise-grade platform, including COVID-era pivot to virtual/hybrid

Architecture & Scale

• Engineered platform for multi-million concurrent WebSocket connections
• Migrated cloud infrastructure (Azure → AWS) for cost and performance
• Designed real-time messaging layer for polling, Q&A, slide sync and analytics

Team & Culture

• Scaled engineering from 2 to 10 (company to 30+), shaping hiring, onboarding and mentoring engineers through to senior/lead roles

Security & Compliance

• Led ISO 27001 certification and GDPR compliance
• Enforced OWASP standards with continuous security assessments toward SOC 2 compliance

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Containerized services with Docker, CI/CD pipelines
• Observability stack (ELK, monitoring, alerting)

Web Developer

Good eLearning

Accredited business and enterprise architecture courses (ITIL, TOGAF, Prince2)

Jul 2013 – Apr 2015 eLearning London

• Led development and rollout of a bespoke LMS in Angular & .NET, reporting directly to the CTO
• Content tracking (SCORM), organisational user management, CMS and reporting (HTML5, PDF, Excel)
• Dashboard and analytics visualisation
• Enforced TDD practices across the full stack, achieving 90% unit test coverage

Software Developer

Equisys

Document and expense software

Jun 2010 – Jul 2013 Office ERP London

• Full development lifecycle of ERP software in .NET and C++ for desktop and web applications in a team of 8, reporting to senior leads and CTO
• Integration with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Dynamics NAV, PDF and fax processing

Research Software Engineer

iMinds

MobiThin: European research project bringing industry partners together around thin client architecture

Oct 2008 – Jun 2010 Research Ghent, Belgium

• Remote desktop protocol and network/bandwidth optimization
• Implementation of network tools for monitoring and load testing in C++
• Test execution scripting in Bash