Christophe Henry
Engineering Manager at Kingfisher plc
Greater Lille Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolChristophe Henry is an engineering manager with over 20 years in IT and more than a decade leading teams to deliver scalable, efficient platforms across banking, CRM, and e-commerce domains. He blends hands-on experience in Java, .NET and Kafka with product-minded leadership—defining roadmaps, prioritizing backlogs, and driving technical quality for multi-site teams of 35–40 engineers. Christophe has a practical open-source streak, contributing full‑stack fixes to projects like Diaspora and backend work on Mixxx and Django, showing comfort with both frontend UX and low‑level integrations such as MIDI and command-line tooling. Based in the Lille area, he focuses on aligning user needs with business goals while fostering continuous improvement and innovation. Colleagues describe him as a fast-learning, sys‑savvy manager who brings operational rigor and a developer’s instinct for elegant tools (and yes, he’s a cat person).
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Sciences informatiques et de l''information et services apparentés, Licence Sciences informatiques et de l''information et services apparentés at University of Lille 1 Sciences and Technology
Github Skills (37)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
python10
scripting10
django10
testing10
rails10
ruby10
midi10
midi-instrument10
orm10
backbonejs10
backbone10
qt9
c-language9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
diaspora/diaspora
Oct 2014 - Feb 2017
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christophe primarily contributed to the frontend and backend of the Diaspora social network project. Their work includes fixing issues related to message rendering, Facebook service integration, and statistics page design. Additionally, they added features to the help section for chat and notifications and refactored portions of the notification system to Backbone.js, demonstrating a broad understanding of the codebase.
social-networkprivacyrailsp2pprivacy-aware
mixxxdj/mixxx
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Mixxx is Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:171 reviews, 25 PRs, 281 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Christophe primarily contributed to the back-end of the Mixxx DJ software. Their work included fixing deprecated controls, implementing MIDI input handlers using Javascript, and refactoring code related to MIDI controllers. The user also made changes to the controller input mapping table model, and updated the API for the engine. The user's commits show a focus on MIDI input, script integration, and low-level controller functionality.
everythingwindowshidmidilinux
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