David Henry
Lead Software Engineer at Enterprise Mobility
Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Henry is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade back-end systems and developer tooling. He has led architecture and implementation of orchestration and messaging platforms for large enterprises—moving monoliths to AWS-backed microservices and owning critical on-call reliability. At Shopify he worked across the stack on the widely used Shopify CLI, building an extension server and developer flows that let teams securely integrate local extensions with the platform. Currently he leads development of a sophisticated two-way branch messaging system implemented as a fleet of TypeScript AWS Lambdas. Known for mentoring engineers and for pragmatic API and abstraction design, he pairs deep systems thinking with hands-on refactors that reduce complexity and speed developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of VermontMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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Github Skills (16)
ruby10
testing10
cli10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
javascript10
webextension10
typescripts10
package-json10
shopify-cli10
typescript-types10
oclif9
yaml9
npm8
go7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/cli
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Build apps, themes, and hydrogen storefronts for Shopify
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 87 commits, 19 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the Shopify CLI project by modifying the extensions functionality. They worked on building and debugging extensions CLI, including adding and removing build code and environment variables. The user also implemented a next steps template feature and fixed linting issues. Moreover, they fixed post-purchase extension links.
shopifyclioclifshopify-appsshopify-themes
Shopify/shopify-cli
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 29 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the Shopify CLI's extension functionality. They refactored code, including the default main entry point, and removed debugging statements. The user also implemented features such as enabling the new extension flow and port selection. Furthermore, they addressed bugs related to extension registration and pushed changes, and also updated package dependencies.
shopifyshopify-cli
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