Al Tenhundfeld
CTO & Founding Partner at Simple Thread
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAl Tenhundfeld is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 12+ years building web products and guiding engineering teams, currently serving as CTO and Founding Partner at Simple Thread. He helps energy companies and other clients transform operations through pragmatic innovation and technical excellence, pairing product-focused UX sensibilities with hands-on engineering. A long-time organizer of regional developer communities—cofounded beCraft, helped create RVA JavaScript Conference, and previously launched the Charlottesville Microsoft Developer Group—he prioritizes craft, mentorship, and inclusive community building. He writes and builds open-source web applications and has a history of sharing expertise as a .NET writer/editor for InfoQ. Trained in psychology and comparative religious studies at the University of Virginia, he brings an uncommon human-centered perspective to software leadership and product design. Based in Charlottesville, VA, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a knack for turning complex operational problems into elegant, usable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Scholars Program, Summer Scholars Program at Harvard UniversityPsychology, Comparative Religious Studies, Psychology, Comparative Religious Studies at University of Virginia
Github Skills (36)
probability10
open-source10
linux10
cross-platform10
cli-app10
manjaro10
user-input10
strings9
sdk9
stacktrace9
rails8
padding8
ruby8
javascript8
error-handler8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
erikarvidsson/photoify-ea
Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:100 commits in 1 month
Alric/big-list-of-naughty-strings
Aug 2015 - Oct 2018
The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
naughty-stringsnaughtyinput-datastringsjavascript
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