Henry Pabst is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 12 years of experience building backend Java services for Amazon’s Consumer Payments team in Vancouver. He combines strong production engineering at scale with rigorous academic training (MMath CS, University of Waterloo) and a history of full-stack research software development from the University of Alberta. At Amazon he progressed from intern to senior SDE, shipping payment infrastructure and backend systems that support high-throughput commerce flows. Outside work he applies the same analytical mindset to open-source projects—contributing nuanced damage-analysis modules to WoWAnalyzer that demonstrate deep domain modeling and attention to statistical detail. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who bridges research-grade code and production reliability.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Specialization Computer Science, BSc. Specialization Computer Science at University of Alberta
MMath Computer Science, MMath Computer Science at University of Waterloo
WoWAnalyzer is a tool to help you analyze and improve your World of Warcraft raiding performance through various relevant metrics and gameplay suggestions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:26 reviews, 204 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Henry's contributions primarily involve the development of modules and logic for the WoWAnalyzer project, focusing on implementing damage analysis for the Demonology Warlock class in World of Warcraft. This includes creating and integrating multiple analyzers to track specific in-game abilities and mechanics, such as Demonic Empowerment uptime for various summoned demons, which is demonstrated by the addition of relevant class features and tracking of buffs. The user is actively contributing to build features centered around raid encounters for Shadowlands with a focus on statistical data. The user has shown a strong knowledge of how the game mechanics are implemented in the code.
Contributions:46 commits, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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