Henry Gessau
Network And API Architect at IBM
Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Gessau is a Network and API Architect with 11 years of focused experience in software design, OpenStack Networking, and embedded systems, currently driving network and API strategy at IBM from Manchester, NH. He blends deep C and real-time embedded expertise from long tenures at Cisco with modern Python and Go skills to design scalable REST APIs and cloud networking services. Henry led the first-generation regional network service for IBM's virtual private cloud and contributes to OpenStack Neutron, where his backend work includes cleanup, refactoring, API tests, and database migrations for features like VLAN trunking. Known for pragmatic engineering, he often surfaces long-lived technical debt and removes obsolete code to improve maintainability and operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of KwaZulu-Natal
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (13)
database-migrations10
database-migration10
openstack10
api10
sql10
python10
networking10
apidoc10
git6
cluster-computing6
openstack-nova6
github6
emacs6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Henry primarily contributed to removing obsolete code and improving the Neutron networking project by cleaning up and refactoring code, as demonstrated by removing obsolete plugin configurations, references, and test scripts. The user also contributed to adding and modifying API tests and implementing functionality for allocating network resources. Furthermore, the user made database migration changes to support features like VLAN trunking and address various dependency issues.
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HenryGessau/cli
May 2019 - Dec 2024
As easy as httpie /aitch-tee-tee-pie/ 🥧 Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc. https://twitter.com/clihttp
Contributions:9 PRs, 42 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 8 months
intuitiveextensionshighlightingclicommand-line-tool
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