Louis Heath
Software Engineer at G-Research
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLouis 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
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (17)
incident-management10
ruby10
import-data10
jekyll10
portal10
credit-card9
science9
incident-response9
programming-tools8
computer-science8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
golang7
chrome6
unit-testing6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
louisheath/COMS10001-scotland-yard
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:64 commits, 1 push in 8 months
louisheath/louisheath.github.io
Jun 2017 - Feb 2026
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 8 years 9 months
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