Henry Firth
Self Employed Software Engineer at Self-employed
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Firth is a Software Alignment Engineer with 11 years of engineering experience who blends hands-on development, leadership, and a systems-thinking approach to translate product visions into secure, production-ready code. He has progressed from full-stack Rails developer and bootcamp instructor to engineering manager and VP at Goldman Sachs, and now builds agentic workflows and context-management infrastructure as an independent practitioner. Henry focuses on alignment—ensuring software behaves reliably and ethically—while mentoring others and driving equitable, mission-driven outcomes. His background in engineering mechanics and rapid prototyping gives him a practical edge in designing robust, testable systems that bridge research and product.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Dev BootcampBachelor of Science (B.S.) Engineering Mechanics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Engineering Mechanics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (62)
realtime10
elixir10
api-server10
phoenix-framework10
web-framework10
ncurses9
spotify9
egui8
gleam8
linux8
ruby8
asdf8
npm-cli8
nodejs7
npm7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
H12/H12.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:63 pushes in 3 years 10 months
H12/exercism
Feb 2019 - Jul 2024
A collection of my Exercism.io solutions
Contributions:10 PRs, 122 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 5 months
exercismloopsarrays
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