Michael Henning
Founding Designer at Testkube
Ohio, Denmark
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMichael Henning is a founding designer and product leader with over two decades of experience building zero-to-one, AI-native products and scalable design systems across startups and Fortune 500s. He blends principal-level product and UX design with full‑stack engineering, driving products from vision and user research to launch, iteration and exit—having repeatedly scaled teams and led design through acquisitions. Currently crafting a Kubernetes-native AI testing framework at Testkube and running a nonprofit that connects product, design and open source, he pairs hands-on implementation with design strategy. Michael’s background includes leading design for exits at HumanFirst and Capdesk and pragmatic system architecture work at Allthings and Bomler. He’s also contributed to open-source documentation for Testkube, migrating and improving its Docusaurus-based docs and UX. Known for empathetic, detail-focused leadership, he combines creative curiosity (art, hip hop, skateboarding) with rigorous product thinking.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Design and Visual Communications, General, Bachelor's degree, Design and Visual Communications, General at Berufliches Schulzentrum Alois Senefelder München
German, English, Romanian
Github Skills (11)
css10
docusaurus10
documentation10
mstest9
testing9
teste9
ui-testing9
testing-library9
k8s7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kubeshop/testkube
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
☸️ Kubernetes-native testing framework for test execution and orchestration
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 reviews, 10 commits, 22 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on updating and refactoring the documentation for the Testkube project. Their commits involved migrating documentation to Docusaurus, adding redirects for improved navigation, fixing search functionality, and customizing the appearance through CSS modifications. They also refactored the documentation index page and made minor adjustments to the logo within the documentation.
test-executiontesting-frameworkorchestrationdevopstesting
contribute-design/examples
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
📖 A collection of .design contribution guidelines intended to work on every project – no matter the size/complexity.
Contributions:1 review, 15 commits, 9 PRs in 29 days
design-processcomplexitycsscollaborationproduct-development
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