Henry Steere is a Scala engineer with nine years' experience building backend systems, APIs and deployment architectures, currently working on Scala APIs for Neo4J at GrapheneDB. He combines strong functional-programming instincts with full-stack experience from Robo‑advisor work (Scala/JavaScript) to C#, Java and C++ systems, and has hands-on expertise in cloud deployments, CI/CD and version-control migrations. Henry has a mathematics MSc and a taste for data science, having built analytics pipelines with Apache Storm, used Vowpal Wabbit, and completed a Harvard data-science certificate. An active open-source problem-solver, he’s improved a Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler by fixing core REPL and evaluation issues, reflecting an attention to language-level detail. Colleagues value him for working effectively in tight-knit teams and for influencing architectural decisions beyond his coding remit.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Michaelhouse
Master's Degree, Mathematics, Master's Degree, Mathematics at University of the Witwatersrand
Graduate data science certificate, Data Science, Graduate data science certificate, Data Science at Harvard Extension School
A Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler bootstrapped from Common Lisp
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Henry primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements in the Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler. They resolved issues related to the `reduce` function, web worker REPL error handling, and parenthesis matching in the REPL. The user also exposed the `eval_in_lisp` function via `jscl.evaluateString` in the prelude, and put back register matching, demonstrating a focus on improving the core functionality and user experience of the compiler.
Contributions:37 commits, 16 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 11 months
lisp-interpreterlispmonadscommon-lisp
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