Henry Kiem

Seattle, WA

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Work Experience

Senior Consultant

Zeptta · Games industry consultancy

  • Cloud architecture and DevOps consulting for game studios.

Solutions Architect

3 years

AWS for Games · Seattle, WA

  • Lead developer of the Cloud Game Development Toolkit, an open-source repository for deploying Unreal Engine Horde, Cloud DDC, and Perforce on AWS.
  • Co-developed an MCP server for connecting coding agents to P4 servers alongside Perforce. Lead alignment on cloud strategy with Perforce's C-suite.
  • Consulted with major game studios including EA, Warner Brothers, and Riot Games.
  • Presented on games DevOps patterns at UnrealFest 2024 and re:Invent in 2024/25.

Software Development Engineer

1 year

Amazon Luna · Bellevue, WA

  • Designed and developed an administrative portal for the commerce teams allowing backend engineers to manage in-game purchases, entitlements, game session authorizations and customer permissions.
  • Designed an automated regression testing service (RATS) leveraging AWS Step Functions to parallelize behavioral tests across commerce microservices.
  • Built GDPR compliance integration services for Amazon Luna.
  • Interned with the team twice pre-launch before returning full time as a SDE in 2022.

Software Development Intern

6 months

Moovila · Charleston, SC

  • Worked with an agile development team on an enterprise project management platform. Built mobile application features in Angular.
  • Responsible for market analysis of telematics vendors for corporate construction partners.

Researcher

6 months

Columbia Neural Acoustic Processing Lab · New York, NY

  • Utilizing Python word2vec packages and MATLAB linear regression to map collected EEG data to time-aligned vector representations of an audio stimulus. Analyzing the importance of contextualization in language processing.

Education

Columbia University

Computer Engineering, Philosophy · New York, NY

  • Relevant Coursework: Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Networks, Advanced Programming in C, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Structures
  • 3.6 GPA. Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean's List.

Skills

Infrastructure

Terraform, Packer, AWS, Ansible

Orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless

Languages

TypeScript, Java, C++, C#, Python, Go

Web Frameworks

NextJS, NestJS, Express, GraphQL, Django, Hono