Heath Ryu
Senior Software Engineer at Synthesia
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHeath Ryu is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer based in London with a decade of experience building production-grade systems across JVM, Node.js and .NET, and a keen interest in Go and Python. He has driven greenfield products and platform initiatives—designing scalable inference orchestration and user-facing AI apps that landed commercial insurance deals—while mentoring engineers and shaping team practices. Comfortable across cloud-native tooling (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD and test automation, he also has hands-on experience in cost-optimising infrastructure and observability. A background in applied mathematics informs his pragmatic approach to complex problems, and his international upbringing (South Korea → New Zealand → UK) shows an ability to adapt and collaborate across cultures.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Applied Mathematics Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Applied Mathematics Computer Science at The University of AucklandNCEA Level 1 2 and 3, NCEA Level 1 2 and 3 at Rangitoto College
English, Korean, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
vpc8
amazon-web-services6
aws6
terraform-module5
aws-vpc5
terraform4
mongodb3
nodejs3
graphql2
graphql-js2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
heathryu/name-contests-graphql
Jul 2019 - May 2020
Example GraphQL Server using graphql-js, integrating to MongoDB and Postgres
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
graphql-servernodejspostgresgraphql-examplegraphql
Zzorebies/holiday-life-balance-web
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:4 reviews, 16 PRs, 28 pushes in 11 months
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