Henry Phan
Senior Engineering Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Phan is a Senior Engineering Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15 years of experience bridging R&D and manufacturing across lasers, medical devices, and bioprocessing systems. He leads cross-functional teams that deliver complex electro-mechanical and automation solutions—from 1L lab vessels to 5kL bioprocess systems—while driving NPI, design transfer, GMP compliance, and cost reduction. His background includes deep hands-on expertise in laser optics, fiber coupling and alignment, PLC/software controls, BOM and lifecycle management, and working closely with contract manufacturers globally. Henry combines rigorous root-cause/data-driven process improvement with product verification and validation, and has contributed backend image-processing code and testing discipline to open-source tooling. He is known for turning high-precision laboratory designs into robust, scalable production systems and for translating optical sensitivities into manufacturable processes.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering - minor Optics, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering - minor Optics at University of California, DavisLycee Flora Tristan, Paris Fr
Github Skills (5)
rspec10
imagemagick10
image-processing10
ruby10
software-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
markevans/dragonfly
Nov 2010 - Nov 2010
A Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Henry focused on developing image processing functionality within the Dragonfly gem. They implemented and refined an ImageMagick processor, adding features such as resizing, cropping, rotation, and format encoding. Their work involved writing extensive tests to ensure the correct behavior of the image processing methods. This resulted in a more robust and versatile image processing library.
ruby-gemsinatraimagerailsruby
htp/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:34 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
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