Summary
Henderson Hummel is a software engineer based in Portland, Oregon with nine years of experience building internal tooling, test automation, and backend systems across cloud and on-premise environments. Currently at DigitalOcean after a recent sabbatical, he combines strong Python and CI/CD expertise with growing frontend skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, web components, and Google MediaPipe. His background includes devops-oriented roles at Red Hat, Jama, and Tripwire where he designed open-source testing tools, integration pipelines, and cross-platform diagnostics. Henderson鈥檚 focus is on developer tooling and alternative user interfaces鈥攔esearching the mechanics of great tools for thought and prototyping novel interactions rather than just shipping features. Comfortable across Linux, databases, and APIs, he brings a pragmatic engineering approach informed by hands-on experience in automation and platform reliability. An educator at heart, he鈥檚 also tutored computer science students and enjoys turning complex systems into approachable workflows.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Portland State University