Frank Henard
Software Engineer at State Farm
Bloomington, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolFrank Henard is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience designing, refactoring, and delivering multi-platform systems across insurance, manufacturing, and higher education. He specializes in Clojure-based full-stack and infrastructure work, with hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and automated testing patterns that improve maintainability and reduce operational overhead. Frank has led migrations and consolidation efforts, introduced database-backed integration tests using testcontainers-dotnet, and removed global mutable state by applying functional patterns like Railway Oriented Programming to enable parallel processing. Comfortable both as a solo contributor and a technical mentor, he’s repeatedly been tapped to onboard quickly into accelerated projects and to train colleagues in better design and testing practices. Based in Bloomington, Illinois, he blends systems thinking with a knack for terse, elegant solutions and has applied his skills to interesting side projects including IoT gas detection and Fulcro/Pathom full-stack work.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems at Eastern Illinois UniversityDabeaz LLC
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Github Skills (67)
authentication10
editor9
babashka9
edn9
nrepl7
vim7
emacs-lisp7
emacs7
package-json7
eclipse6
namespaces6
chicken-scheme6
deferred6
autocomplete6
django6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fdhenard/.emacs.d
Dec 2015 - Jan 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 2 months
fdhenard/diff-as-list
Jun 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:5 releases, 25 commits, 38 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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