Jon Henderson
Architect Staff at Renaissance Learning
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJon Henderson is an architect-level software leader with over a decade of backend-first full-stack experience, currently serving as Architect Staff at Renaissance Learning, where he guides a large-scale EdTech ecosystem used by millions of students worldwide. He specializes in server and application architecture, data persistence, and background processing, with deep expertise in PHP, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Go, and robust command-line tooling. He has led teams through multi-year transformations—from waterfall to SCRUM to Kanban—and partnered with product management and HR to shape roadmaps, hiring, and process improvements across the development lifecycle. Beyond delivery, he acts as the development liaison for new business integrations and acquisitions and mentors local developers through job-readiness programs and mock interviews. Jon combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, balancing technical depth with initiative in people development and process modernization. Based in Minneapolis, he brings a pragmatic, growth-focused approach to building scalable, reliable software systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Youth Ministry, BS, Youth Ministry at University of Northwestern - St. Paul
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Github Skills (100)
programming-language10
interpreter10
visual-studio10
editor10
golang10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
go10
vscode10
odin10
readline10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
henderjon/oid
May 2020 - Apr 2024
a simple un/sortable unique ID package
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 26 branches in 4 years
unique-idnanoidsortableulid
henderjon/handlerset
May 2018 - Sep 2019
readable ordered middleware for golang HTTP handling
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 4 months
golangreadablehandlingmiddlewareordered
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