Henry Dotson
Senior Software Engineer at Justworks
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolHenry Dotson is a Senior Software Engineer in the NYC area with 11+ years blending data engineering, DevOps, and full-stack Ruby on Rails development. He excels at automating repetitive work—favoring pragmatic scripting in Ruby and Python—and ships features for eCommerce and SaaS platforms while maintaining data warehouses on AWS. His toolkit spans Ruby/Rails (his strongest), JavaScript/React, SQL, D3.js, and configuration automation, informed by hands-on sysadmin and IT management experience. At companies from Moda Operandi to Justworks he’s built integrations, deployment automation, and reporting pipelines that support frequent, agile releases. Trained in environmental science and social psychology, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-thinking approach to product and operational problems. Outside work he tinkers with code and maintains a public GitHub presence, reflecting a continuous curiosity for practical engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Environmental Science, Master of Science (MS), Environmental Science at Pace UniversityBachelor's degree, Social Psychology, Bachelor's degree, Social Psychology at Hampshire CollegeStuyvesant High SchoolApp Academy
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (75)
panzoom8
sprockets8
pan8
pointer-events7
wysiwyg7
geocoding7
quill7
compatibility7
css-transforms7
zooming6
currency6
jam6
text-editing6
sorting6
rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
l3iodeez/Spatio-temporal-Data-Exploration-Tool
Aug 2015 - Apr 2023
Rails app for displaying water level data
Contributions:95 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 9 months
rails-apprailsrubywaterwater-level
l3iodeez/Scribbleships
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:19 PRs, 89 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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