Henry Paenga
Principal Engineer at Xero
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Paenga is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native platform tooling and infrastructure at Xero, rising from graduate developer to senior technical lead. He brings strong AWS, Linux, Docker and Agile expertise, paired with a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics from Victoria University of Wellington. Henry combines hands-on platform development with DevOps sensibilities—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like runatlantis/atlantis by improving Terraform PR automation, OpenTofu support, and GitHub token handling. Known for improving system stability and maintainability, he focuses on pragmatic improvements (for example, graceful termination and better error messages) that reduce operational toil. Based in Wellington, he blends deep technical craft with mentoring and delivery leadership across large engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science and Mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (13)
golang10
terraformer10
automation10
automations10
go10
atlantis10
github10
devops10
terraform10
cicd10
opentofu9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
runatlantis/atlantis
Apr 2019 - Nov 2024
Terraform Pull Request Automation
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 7 PRs, 28 comments in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Henry's contributions center around improving the stability and maintainability of the `runatlantis/atlantis` project. They addressed user permission issues within the autoplan functionality, updated e2e test configurations, and added support for OpenTofu. Additionally, the user enhanced error messages for OpenTofu and refined the project's deployment by integrating `dumb-init` for graceful termination. Furthermore, the user focused on improving Github token management by supporting loading it from the disk and addressed GitHub support token file for git commands.
atlantisgolangdevopsgopull-request
meringu/circuits
Oct 2015 - Jun 2021
Express logical circuits in code!
Contributions:27 releases, 95 commits, 56 PRs in 5 years 8 months
expressjscircuitsjavascriptexpressnodejs
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