Henry Nash
Principal Build Partner Technical & AI Specialist at Sammi Select
South Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHenry Nash is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over three decades of experience founding companies and steering engineering organizations to commercial success, currently serving as Principal Build Partner Technical & AI Specialist at IBM. He blends deep technical expertise in AI, cloud/distributed systems, and AR/VR with a proven track record of shipping breakthrough products—early immersive VR systems, horizontally scalable infrastructure long before mainstream cloud, and award-winning emulation and nanotech actuator products. A core contributor to OpenStack Keystone and active in Kubernetes/Helm ecosystems, he advocates open source and continuous delivery while helping partners build production-grade solutions. Comfortable operating across Europe, the US and Asia, he excels at uniting business and technology teams and closing large strategic deals. Author of "Letters to Dead People", he brings an uncommon mix of public-facing evangelism, hands-on engineering, and entrepreneurial grit.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Clifton collegeBSc (Hons - 1st), Electrical Engineering, BSc (Hons - 1st), Electrical Engineering at University of Southampton
English, French
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Github Skills (12)
user-authentication10
authentication10
api10
openstack10
backend10
sql10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
sqlalchemy9
database-design9
json9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/python-keystoneclient
Nov 2012 - Feb 2016
OpenStack Identity (Keystone) Client. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Henry primarily focused on implementing and modifying the keystoneclient, particularly in preparation for migrating authentication-related code. Their contributions included structural changes, adding support for user groups and endpoint policies, and integrating support for v3 tokens. They also added domain-specific role creation and domain configuration management.
opendevkeystoneidentityopenstack
openstack/keystone
Jul 2013 - Feb 2017
OpenStack Identity (Keystone). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:140 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Henry's contributions primarily focused on removing deprecated KVS backends and modifying SQL upgrade tests. They removed specific KVS backends for identity and assignment, indicating a deep understanding of the project's architecture and deprecated components. Furthermore, they fixed several issues within the SQL upgrade tests to ensure they would work with non-SQLite databases.
vcenterkeystoneopendevidentityopenstack
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