Matt Henkes
Healthcare IT Consultant at About Objects
Forest Lake, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Henkes is a Healthcare IT consultant and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building web and testing infrastructure for clinical and open-source products. He has led teams and driven technical strategy at Cerner—creating the Terra UI framework and modernizing frontend ecosystems—and later advanced testing and developer tooling at Cypress.io, contributing to flagship projects like the Cypress testing framework and its Docker images. Comfortable as both an IC and leader, he blends hands-on React and test-automation work (including improving Cypress selector logic and migrating tests to cy.intercept) with DevOps improvements to CI/CD and container builds. Based in Forest Lake, MN, he’s pragmatic about accessibility and scalable component design, and he’s known for turning enterprise UX and regulatory requirements into reusable, production-ready tooling.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (23)
e2e-testing10
github-ci10
javascript10
docker10
cypress10
ui-components10
testing10
e2e-test10
web-components10
dockers10
cicd10
component-kit10
frontend10
githubaction-workflow10
react10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cypress-io/cypress-docker-images
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Docker images with Cypress dependencies and browsers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:138 reviews, 164 commits, 63 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of Docker images used for Cypress testing. Their commits focused on generating new images for different Cypress versions and updating configurations, including modifications to the `generate-config.js` and `generate-included-readme.js` scripts. They also introduced the `cypress/factory` image and updated CI/CD pipeline configurations and related testing scripts. These changes aimed at streamlining the build process and improving the testing environment.
waitdependenciesdocker-imagebrowsersdocker
cerner/terra-core
Feb 2017 - Oct 2021
Terra offers a set of configurable React components designed to help build scalable and modular application UIs. This UI library was created to solve real-world issues in projects we work on day to day.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:234 reviews, 109 commits, 434 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the `terra-core` repository by modifying React components, specifically the Button component, Badge, and components within the terra-site. They focused on code cleanup, removing commented code, and updating component implementations to use newer coding styles such as the rest style for custom props. Furthermore, the user updated the code to include icon updates, and modifications to the doc template.
dayterrareact-componentsreactjsmodular
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