Ryan Lie
Senior Software Developer at Uptick - Fire & Security Software
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolRyan Lie is a Senior Software Developer based in Sydney with 15 years building backend systems, cloud-native services, and developer tooling across startups and regulated industries. He has led architecture and teams for greenfield FastAPI and Django projects, designed an internal ledger and global routing via Lambda@Edge, and implemented GitOps and IAM integrations for hybrid Kubernetes/OpenStack/Azure deployments. His background includes real-money gaming systems where he championed CI/CD, security practices and ISO-modeled audits, and at Prezzee he helped scale the platform globally while driving microservices and sandboxing for local testing. An active open-source contributor, Ryan has improved Python refactoring tooling (rope) and Vim python-mode, adding modern AST and syntax support that benefits many Python developers. Pragmatic and security-minded, he blends deep hands-on engineering with operational discipline to deliver reliable, testable systems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
SMAK 1 BPK PENABURRandwick Boys' High SchoolBachelor of Information Technology Software Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology Software Technology at Macquarie University
English, Indonesian
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Github Skills (51)
python10
abstract-syntax-tree10
vimscript10
android-intent10
vim-plugin10
apk10
android10
virtualenv10
html10
refactoring10
list-comprehension9
unix9
switch-statement9
javascript9
exceptions9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
python-rope/rope
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
a python refactoring library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 82 reviews, 882 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the refactoring and enhancement of the `rope` Python refactoring library, focusing on improving the abstract syntax tree (AST) parsing capabilities. Their work involved adding support for new Python syntax elements, such as byte-string literals, the ellipsis Constant, and the "async for", "async def", and "await" keywords, along with the implementation of the structural pattern matching node and the refactoring of the handling of whitespace and operator precedence. The contributions also addressed bugs and inconsistencies.
pythonpython-3-6astrefactoringrefactoring-tools
python-mode/python-mode
Nov 2018 - Nov 2022
Vim python-mode. PyLint, Rope, Pydoc, breakpoints from box.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 21 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the Python-mode Vim plugin, enhancing its functionality and fixing bugs. Their work included improving refactoring capabilities, such as extract method and variable, and implementing new features like selecting logical lines. They also focused on improving the testing infrastructure by adding flags and modifying test scripts. Additionally, the user updated the Rope library dependency.
pythonvim-pythonvimboxpylint
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