Heath Henley
Senior Application Engineer
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeath Henley is a Senior Application Engineer with a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a decade of experience applying scientific rigor to real-world software problems, from computational thermodynamics to sonar signal processing. At FarSounder he has driven key product features—expanding sonar field of view, building Local History Mapping, and creating GIS-backed tools and evaluation web apps—while blending Python, C++ and spatial databases. He pairs deep research credentials (novel EOS models, Monte Carlo simulations, peer-reviewed publications) with hands-on product work, including service visits and customer-facing demos worldwide. An active tester for the matplotlib project, he improves reliability through test automation and increased coverage for widely used plotting tools. Heath’s background uniquely combines reservoir and fluid-phase expertise with practical marine sensing systems, enabling him to translate complex physical models into deployable software. Based in Providence, RI, he’s equally comfortable in the lab, on a vessel, or in front of stakeholders refining requirements.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering at University of Rhode Island
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
pytest10
python10
matplotlib10
testing10
widgets9
keras6
plpython6
unit-testing6
buildbot6
postgresql6
sqlalchemy6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
matplotlib/matplotlib
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
matplotlib: plotting with Python
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Heath contributed to the test suite of the matplotlib library by adding and modifying tests. The commits focused on testing specific functionalities, such as the default DPI setting for animation writers and the behavior of the slider widget. The user also added tests related to the bounds checking in the slider widget and made improvements to the overall test coverage.
pythondata-sciencegtkdata-visualizationplotting
edwardthomas/phase-equilibria-software
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 months
pythonequilibriaphase
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