Ryan Finlayson
Software Engineer at Freelance
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRyan Finlayson is a Software Engineer based in London with nine years of experience building high-performance, secure systems using Golang, Python and modern web stacks. He has shipped production-grade microservices and real-time APIs across adtech, cybersecurity and healthcare, achieving sub-200ms response times and 99.9% uptime through containerization, CI/CD and observability tooling. Comfortable across front-end frameworks (React Native, Angular, Vue) and backend platforms (Go, Node.js, Java, Python), he also brings hands-on serverless and cloud deployment experience that reduced downtime and improved page-load performance. An MSc in Software Systems Engineering from UCL complements practical leadership mentoring junior engineers and driving security best practices like automated vulnerability scanning. Now entering the defence sector at SixWorks after freelance and product roles, he combines a data-driven engineering mindset with a track record of boosting retention and operational reliability.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree BSc (Hons) Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree BSc (Hons) Computer Science at University of West LondonUniversity College London
English
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Github Skills (24)
algorithm10
algorithms10
fundamentals10
c-programming10
coding10
data-structures10
science10
computer-science10
postman6
rapidapi6
heroku6
go6
tone-analyzer6
keyword-search6
twitter4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RyanFin/GoPlayGround
Feb 2021 - Sep 2025
Contributions:78 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
RyanFin/RekognitionApp
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:14 commits in 3 months
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