Hannah Henderson
Senior Engineering Manager, AI Team at honeycomb.io
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHannah Henderson is a seasoned engineering leader with a decade of experience building and scaling developer-facing platforms and AI teams from San Francisco. She has repeatedly returned to CircleCI in progressively senior roles, contributing hands-on to core tooling like the circleci-cli and helping launch and operationalize orbs, demonstrating deep product and DevOps fluency. At honeycomb.io she transformed Signals and now leads the AI team, driving measurable outcomes such as higher Enterprise SLO adoption, 10x capacity expansion, and meaningful performance gains. Hannah combines technical depth (backend, Clojure, GraphQL integrations, build tooling) with people-first management—redesigning career ladders, mentoring managers, and reducing key-person dependencies. She excels at navigating cross-division complexity and shipping pragmatic improvements that unlock scale and velocity. Outside work she maintains an active developer presence and portfolio at hannah-henderson.com, signaling a continual appetite for hands-on engineering.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hack ReactorBachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at Tufts UniversityHigh school diploma, High school diploma at Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton
Spanish
Github Skills (19)
command-line-interface10
circleci10
wpgraphql10
go10
wordpress-graphql10
command-line10
graphql10
command-line-tool10
cli10
continuous-integration9
continuous-delivery9
cin9
devops9
ginkgo8
error-handling8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CircleCI-Public/circleci-cli
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Use CircleCI from the command line
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Hannah primarily contributed to the development of the CircleCI CLI, focusing on adding new commands for creating and managing orb namespaces and orbs. They implemented GraphQL API interactions, including error handling, to interact with the CircleCI backend. Furthermore, the user demonstrated DevOps skills by incorporating changes related to configuration validation and improvements to the local build environment, which indicates familiarity with build processes and tooling.
command-line-toolgolangdevopscircle-cideveloper-tools
hannahhenderson/emblem-web
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:90 pushes, 16 branches in 1 month
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