Ian Henry
Senior Software Engineer at Respawn Entertainment
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Henry is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating production systems across Rust, Ruby, and TypeScript stacks. He blends backend development, service architecture, and SRE practices with deep expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Chef/Habitat, Terraform, and multi-cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, and bare metal). Currently at Respawn Entertainment, he has a history of shaping observability and deployment tooling—contributing to the popular Vector pipeline by improving CLI, Kubernetes integration, and event metadata. Ian thrives in collaborative teams, focuses on customer-facing outcomes, and enjoys enabling teammates to ship reliable, delightful features. His background ranges from hands-on automation at GE Aviation and Chef to freelance systems work, reflecting a pragmatic tool-first approach to solving infrastructure complexity. Based in Cincinnati, he pairs a BA in English with engineering rigor, bringing clear communication to technically dense projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA English, BA English at Lee University
Spanish
Github Skills (15)
eventsource10
eventing10
kubernetes10
observability10
rust10
event-emitter10
logfile10
event-sourcing10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
pipeline10
testing10
dockers9
docker9
cli8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vectordotdev/vector
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:77 reviews, 36 commits, 42 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributes to the Vector observability data pipeline project by implementing features and addressing issues in the CLI and Kubernetes integration. They added optional file output to the generator and integrated container support within the host metrics source. Additionally, they fixed CI scripts and addressed error handling within the Kubernetes logs source, and added tests. The user's contributions also include adding container annotations to events within the k8s source.
stream-processingeventspipelinerustdata-observability
habitat-sh/slackin
Nov 2016 - May 2019
Habitat Community Slack Slackin
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
habitatslackslack-botslackin
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