# Henry Ling

> Senior Software Engineer at Grow Therapy

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/henryling

I am a self-taught software engineer. and my breadth of experience spans across UX design, front-end, distributed systems, networking, and project management. In addition to designing and developing software, I have experience participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation and promoting operational excellence as well as development best practices within my team.

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## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Grow Therapy
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Sony Music Entertainment
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Culver City, California, United States
• Senior Software Engineer in Sony Immersive Music Studios
• Full-stack engineer responsible for maintaining backend services for immersive music experiences in Roblox and R&D initiatives
• Designed UX and architecture, and implemented frontend (with React) and backend (on AWS) for multiple services: internal tooling used by employees and outward-facing customer features
• Designed and delivered feature with Spotify and Roblox OAuth to grant rewards to players
• Migrated team’s build and continuous deployment pipeline system from TeamCity to CodeBuild, CodePipeline for increased efficiency and enabling parallel builds
• Built out infrastructure for deploying resources to all 33 AWS regions for security and monitoring
• Responsible for Secrets management with Step Functions and Secrets Manager and automated API key rotation for publicly available services
• Implemented load testing with K6 and ECS to certify service-level capabilities
• Maintained data collecting service using API Gateway and Kinesis Firehose

### Freelance Software Engineer @ Unknown
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Freelance web development and Shopify development

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### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Responsible for the network infrastructure to ensure that customers would be able to make requests to DynamoDB with minimal disruption
• Designed and implemented automation to scale load balancer fleet
• Partially automated DynamoDB’s expansion to AWS regions, saving multiple developer weeks per
region
• Expanded DNS resolution system to function across all AWS regions and cloud systems
• Participated in 24/7 on-call rotation to maintain networking and load balancing solutions

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Responsible for the AWS Management Console experience for multiple AWS services: Kinesis, MSK, Snowball, and Glacier
• Designed and implemented front-end components to support service features on the console
• Improved development by migrating consoles to shared UI components and architecture
• Acted as interim UX Designer to unblock product development and presented designs to UX community within Amazon

### Software Development Engineer I @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on AWS Management consoles for the Kinesis and MSK services, Snowball, and Glacier.

### Research Assistant @ Caltech
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Pasadena, California


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Astrophysics
Columbia University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### High School in Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology
Bergen County Academies
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/henry-ling-b5496a62

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Source: https://flows.cv/henryling
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/henryling/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22