Henry Stanley
Co-founder & CTO at Mast.
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHenry Stanley is a technical founder and CTO with 12 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer tooling from London. As co-founder and CTO of Mast he’s focused on transforming loan origination with a product-led, infrastructure-first mindset informed by earlier roles at Thought Machine, Pivotal and CloudCredo. He combines backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to high-performance build tooling like Thought Machine’s please—and a track record of shipping reliable production systems, CI/CD pipelines and backup/restore tooling. A Recurse Center alum and Makers Academy graduate, he blends hands-on engineering with rapid-learning habits and a scientific background in biochemistry. He’s also active in the founder community through Founders Pledge, signaling a commitment to ethical, impact-driven entrepreneurship.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Recurse CenterMakersA levels in Biology Chemistry Economics (Grade A); AS level in English Literature (Grade A), A levels in Biology Chemistry Economics (Grade A); AS level in English Literature (Grade A) at Royal Grammar School GuildfordUniversity College London
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Github Skills (21)
caching10
build-system10
go10
error-handling10
remote-execution10
configuration-management9
bazel9
configuration-file9
configurations9
logging9
build-tools9
multiple-languages8
multilingual8
amazon-aurora6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
thought-machine/please
May 2019 - Dec 2019
High-performance extensible build system for reproducible multi-language builds.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 19 PRs, 6 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Henry contributed to improving the please build system by addressing remote caching and execution functionality. Their commits focused on enhancing error handling, logging, and configurability for the remote client. They modified the codebase to handle potential issues with remote server responses and implemented features to improve reliability. Additionally, the user made changes to support remote execution with the Java build definition.
buckmonorepobazelmulti-languagebuilds
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