Mark Henderson
Infrastructure Lead at AllSpice
Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMark Henderson is an infrastructure-focused engineering leader with 15 years of experience building resilient cloud and distributed systems from startups to research organizations. Currently Infrastructure Lead in Gloucester, MA, he has led teams, founded a privacy-conscious startup, and driven cloud ops and Web3 deployments using Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and GCP. He helped scale OrbitDB and contributed test and maintenance work to that notable peer-to-peer database project, bringing practical experience with IPFS/IPNS, Rust, and JavaScript. Known for turning complex distributed tooling into reliable production workflows, Mark has a track record of reducing release times, improving CI/CD, and hiring top-tier engineering talent. His background in music performance hints at a creative, disciplined approach to engineering and team leadership.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
Github Skills (13)
databases10
nodejs10
javascript10
database10
testing10
ipfs9
distributed-systems8
decentralization8
crdt8
libp2p7
peer-to-peer7
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
orbitdb/orbitdb
Dec 2018 - Aug 2022
Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 25 reviews, 98 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on refactoring and updating test code within the OrbitDB project. Their contributions involved modifying test files to reflect changes in database functionality. The user also made updates to package dependencies and configurations and addressed various bugs in the testing environment. These changes included the addition and correction of custom tests and file path references, along with the migration of cache data to newer versions.
orbit-dbipfsreactp2pdecentralized-web
aphelionz/sarkin12x12s
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:264 commits, 78 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.