Becca Mchenry
Senior Engineering Manager at Synapse Health
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBecca Mchenry is a Senior Engineering Manager with seven years of professional experience and a decade-long engagement with engineering across startups and Microsoft-scale projects. She currently leads teams at Synapse Health, applying AI and automation to streamline Durable Medical Equipment workflows after driving clinical documentation innovation at Contrast Healthcare. Becca blends hands-on backend development—contributing to high-profile .NET projects like Roslyn and the C# VS Code extension—with product-focused leadership that turns complex systems into intuitive solutions. Her open-source work ranges from improving language-server communication to data-processing notebooks for .NET Interactive, revealing both systems-level and data-savvy instincts. Based in Chicago and grounded in a Computer Science degree from UW–Madison, she’s known for shipping pragmatic, test-driven changes and surfacing subtle protocol improvements that reduce friction for developer tools.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Information Systems at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (19)
roslyn10
dataframes10
net10
machine-learning10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
language-server-protocol10
vscode-extension10
dataframe10
asp-net10
language-server10
data-processing10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/csharp-notebooks
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Get started learning C# with C# notebooks powered by .NET Interactive and VS Code.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:19 reviews, 27 commits, 14 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Becca's commits focus on data processing and exploration within the context of a C# notebook environment. The primary contribution involves creating and modifying a notebook (DataProcessing.ipynb) to demonstrate data manipulation techniques using DataFrames, specifically within the domain of hockey data. They also added a new notebook REF-Data Processing, updated package references, and performed some structural improvements. Their work involves loading, transforming, and analyzing data using .NET libraries for machine learning, highlighting a focus on data preparation and potential feature engineering for predictive modeling tasks.
dotnetget-startednotebooknotebooksvs-code
dotnet/vscode-csharp
Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
Official C# support for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Becca focused on updating the language server to use named pipes for communication. This involved modifying the server to send named pipe connection information via stdout, and the client to establish a connection. Additionally, the user worked on implementing timeouts for the connection process. These changes aimed to improve the language server's functionality and communication protocol.
dotnetvisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionomnisharp
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