Christopher Henn
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Henn is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-impact front-end and full-stack systems, currently developing Data Observability products at Datadog. Previously he led reliability and tech efforts for Stripe.js at Stripe, where he was the reliability DRI and tech lead for the Payment Element that scaled to over a million businesses and supported billions in daily payments. Christopher has strong UI and visualization expertise from contributions to InfluxData projects—implementing dynamic visual query builders and UI components for Chronograf and InfluxDB—and a track record of scaling frontend tooling and monorepos for large teams. Comfortable operating at the intersection of product and platform, he pairs practical mathematics training from Reed College with deep experience shipping reliable, user-facing systems in production.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at Reed College
Github Skills (22)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
ui-design10
redux10
uid10
front-end-development10
flux10
data-visualization10
fluxor10
chronograf10
react10
dashboard9
visualization9
user-interface9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/influxdb
May 2018 - Sep 2019
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:474 commits, 256 PRs, 392 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily worked on the UI components of the project. They were instrumental in the creation of a dynamic and interactive user interface, which included the implementation of a new visual query builder, the addition of various options such as the ability to select time zones, and the refactoring of components like the TimeMachine and dygraph. In addition to this, they have contributed to improving the visualization of data and adding features like the ability to save data as a task.
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influxdata/chronograf
May 2018 - Jul 2019
Open source monitoring and visualization UI for the TICK stack
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:383 commits, 256 PRs, 504 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Chronograf user interface. Their contributions involved implementing new UI components for filtering tag values, tag keys, and databases. They also worked on incorporating improved loading states and adding features such as enabling search within the UI and the ability to view data.
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