Bianca Henderson
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBianca Henderson is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and improving backend systems, CI/CD, and automation tooling for large open-source projects. Based in Durham, NC, she has contributed significant fixes and features to high-profile repos like conda and Ansible/AWX, focusing on reliability, test infrastructure, and user-facing error handling. Self-taught in Python and with a background that spans technical writing, DevOps, and product engineering, she blends code work with clear documentation and build/deployment improvements. Her work at Anaconda and Red Hat shows a recurring focus on production-ready automation—implementing virtual package plugins, improving runner deployments, and migrating macOS CI to GitHub Actions. Outside engineering she brings a creative past as an illustrator and engraver, which surfaces in thoughtful UX-oriented fixes and attention to polish.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's English, Bachelor's English at University of Central Florida
English, French
Github Skills (34)
podman10
github-ci10
docker10
pytest10
python10
ansible-awx10
package-management10
django10
testing10
rs10
conda10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
ansible10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx
Nov 2018 - Nov 2021
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:208 reviews, 330 commits, 124 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Bianca primarily worked on back-end development tasks, including adding and modifying functionality related to the AWX project. Their contributions included addressing Unicode issues in instance group registration, refactoring error messages in the user interface, and converting job template credential input to integers. They also implemented features for email notification timeout and handling, demonstrating a focus on improving the platform's core functionality and user experience.
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ansible/ansible-runner
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
A tool and python library that helps when interfacing with Ansible directly or as part of another system whether that be through a container image interface, as a standalone tool, or as a Python module that can be imported. The goal is to provide a stable and consistent interface abstraction to Ansible.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 22 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Bianca focused on improving the build and deployment process for Ansible Runner. They updated entrypoint scripts to handle environment variables, manage Ansible collections, and show the Ansible version. They also implemented functionality to check the execution node's resource capacities, including memory and CPU. The user's contributions also included updating testing infrastructure and documentation.
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