Chris Henson
Vice President Of Technology at SymmetricDS Open Source Project
Westerville, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolChris Henson is a seasoned software leader and Vice President of Technology with over two decades of hands-on development experience and 18 years in senior technical roles. Based in Westerville, Ohio, he founded and leads JumpMind and is the lead developer of the widely used open-source SymmetricDS project, specializing in resilient, database-agnostic replication and file synchronization. He combines pragmatic product thinking with deep backend expertise—recently improving SQL parsing, Oracle bulk loading, and interval data type support—to solve complex data consistency problems at scale. Chris has a track record of architecting reliable enterprise systems across retail, aviation, and consulting engagements, and brings an electrical engineering background to his systems-level approach.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Gahanna Lincoln High SchoolBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Tri-State University
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
sql10
java10
oracles9
database-design9
debug9
oracle9
mysql8
postgresql8
database-administration7
database-replication6
angular-routing6
replication6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JumpMind/symmetric-ds
Sep 2007 - Sep 2021
SymmetricDS is database replication and file synchronization software that is platform independent, web enabled, and database agnostic. It is designed to make bi-directional data replication fast, easy, and resilient. It scales to a large number of nodes and works in near real-time across WAN and LAN networks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 releases, 7662 commits, 23 PRs in 14 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on the `jumpmind/symmetric-ds` repository, contributing to database replication and file synchronization software. Their commits focused on bug fixes within the `SqlScriptReader.java` file related to multiline literals. The changes involved modifications to handle comments and literal strings during SQL script parsing. Further work included improving the Oracle bulk loader and adding support for Oracle interval data types.
operationsqlserverdata-replicationagnosticresilient
JumpMind/openpos-framework
Jul 2017 - Feb 2023
The openpos framework is a framework on which to build applications targeted for deployment at retail stores.
Contributions:2 releases, 448 reviews, 5528 commits in 5 years 7 months
deploymentretailkubernetesstores
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