Summary
Louis Heath is a backend software engineer with nine years' experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems across finance and fast-moving startups. He has hands-on expertise in Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Kubernetes, and has shipped production services at scale for companies from early-stage ventures to Thought Machine and G-Research. As founding engineer at userled.io he helped create a personalization platform from scratch, and later led a six-person team delivering a Mastercard issuer processor. His background spans the full backend stack—deployment pipelines, data pipelines (BigQuery, PubSub), and observability—paired with practical infra-as-code (Terraform, ArgoCD). Based in London, he combines product-focused engineering with low-level systems experience dating back to defense and trading internships, giving him a knack for turning complex requirements into reliable, auditable services. He’s driven by shipping measurable business impact and building resilient systems that scale.
9 years of coding experience
Computer Science BSc, Computer Science BSc at University of Bristol