Joe Henderson
Senior Software Engineer at McLean Forrester
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Henderson is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 11 years of experience building full-stack solutions across FinTech, healthcare, and food service, currently working with Python, event-driven architectures, and LLMs on GCP. He combines hands-on engineering (React, TypeScript, Node, Python, PostgreSQL) with pragmatic leadership, consistently shrinking CI times and accelerating delivery—most notably cutting frontend CI from 10 to 2 minutes and reducing accounting close cycles from 20 to 5 days. Joe has a track record of improving onboarding and operational workflows—reducing contractor onboarding from four weeks to one—and raising client satisfaction and retention through proactive support and high adoption of delivered features. Comfortable across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and architectures (event sourcing, Kafka, serverless), he pairs deep technical proficiency with mentorship and agile practices to unblock teams. Based in Greater St. Louis, he favors high-impact, iterative improvements that make software more scalable, testable, and user-focused.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Truman State University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (11)
vtt9
replay9
reimplementation9
css8
javascript7
html6
build-configuration6
commonjs5
typescript5
compiler5
zero-configuration3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jjh456/play-and-win-prize-entry
Nov 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:139 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 year 6 months
jjh456/GeekwayGameLibrary
Feb 2015 - Feb 2022
GeekwayLibrary
Contributions:230 commits, 169 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
replayvttreimplementation
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