Kenton Mchenry
Associate Director Of Software
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKenton McHenry is an accomplished software leader and Associate Director for Software at NCSA, University of Illinois, with over a decade of experience building and scaling research software engineering teams to meet diverse scientific data and analytics needs. He has led teams that produce widely used research cyberinfrastructure—spanning data curation, transformation, publication, and machine-learned management—and served as PI or co-PI on multi-institution efforts like Brown Dog, Clowder, the Open Storage Network, PEcAn, and EarthCube. Known for marrying pragmatic engineering with scholarly rigor, Kenton champions sustainable, reusable software that allows research outputs to become peer-reviewed, citable artifacts. Based in Urbana, he combines academic roles (Adjunct Assistant Professor) with hands-on program leadership, and has advanced national-scale prototypes that democratize access to research data.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at California State University-San BernardinoUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (25)
umbrella10
meta-analysis10
ecology9
bootstrapping9
predictive9
bayesian9
forecasting8
java8
bioinformatics8
r8
analyzer8
toolbox8
nostr7
apache7
big-data6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ncsa/Polyglot
Nov 2011 - Jul 2017
Contributions:81 commits, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 years 9 months
earthcube2020/ec20_jones_etal
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 days
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