Summary
Jao Henry is a Senior Developer with 13 years of professional experience and a lifelong passion for programming, currently driving projects at Trade Me in Lower Hutt, Wellington. He combines full-stack expertise, functional-programming experience (Scala), and cloud-native tooling such as Docker and Kubernetes to build maintainable, extensible systems. Previously he led a team at Grandsys, designing scheduling engines and workforce management products for enterprise clients while growing into technical management. Early in his career he demonstrated practical initiative in the army by building a boat-monitoring application that improved operational efficiency and led to broader software improvement assignments. Jao supplements hands-on development with formal study in applied IT and English, and maintains an active GitHub presence and technical blog reflecting a continuous-learning mindset. He seeks roles where he can blend pragmatic engineering, domain understanding, and team leadership to deliver robust, user-focused solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Chang Jung Senior High School
Graduate Diploma in Applied Information Technology, Network engineering, A++, Graduate Diploma in Applied Information Technology, Network engineering, A++ at Wintec - Waikato Institute of Technology
Academic English, Level 8(Upper intermediate), Academic English, Level 8(Upper intermediate) at UTS:INSEARCH
English, Chinese