Henry Bond
Staff Software Engineer - Monitoring & Observability at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Bond is a Staff Software Engineer in Monitoring & Observability with a decade of experience building data-driven monitoring systems and front-end visualizations for metrics, logs, events, and traces. Based in New York, he combines production-grade observability engineering at Meta with a background in capital markets technology where he led reporting platforms, SOA reference data, and infrastructure projects at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He’s proficient across full stacks—from Java EE back-ends and enterprise middleware to rich front-end tooling—and has applied custom monitoring automation and Python scripting in high-stakes trading environments. Henry also contributes to notable open-source work such as Facebook’s Recoil, adding debugging and state-stability features that improve developer insight. Currently he’s focused on applying AI to speed root cause analysis, blending classical monitoring practices with machine learning to make incident response more accurate and actionable.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class Honours BEng Computer Science, 1st Class Honours BEng Computer Science at Imperial College London
Github Skills (12)
state-management10
javascript10
recoiljs10
react10
testing9
debug9
debugging9
performance-optimization8
cicd5
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
facebookexperimental/Recoil
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
Recoil is an experimental state management library for React apps. It provides several capabilities that are difficult to achieve with React alone, while being compatible with the newest features of React.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Henry primarily contributed to the `recoil` library, focusing on internal Facebook-specific integrations and improvements. They made significant changes related to oncall rotation updates by modifying the codebase to reference a new oncall service. Additionally, the user implemented a component debug name feature for determining which React components are subscribed to Recoil nodes, which aids in debugging. The user also added a helper to wait for all underlying RecoilValues to settle to either an Error or Value state.
react-appsreactstate-managementreact-hooksredux
habond/blockswap
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:117 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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