Mitchell Henson
Senior Backend Engineer 2 at Artsy
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchell Henson is a Senior Backend Engineer with 10 years of experience building resilient, end-to-end systems—from mainframe integration and .NET service layers to modern APIs and front-end features. Based in Berlin, he currently shapes backend architecture at Artsy while bringing hands-on experience leading cross-team initiatives and shipping complex platform changes at Spoonflower, including tax infrastructure, pricing systems, and internationalization for user-generated content. He blends engineering with product-focused activities—writing business specs, automating tests and deployments, and consulting directly with customers—so his solutions are both pragmatic and maintainable. An active contributor to the Artsy codebase, he has improved UX and security by implementing TypeScript/React features and sanitizing redirects, reflecting a full-stack sensibility despite a backend title. He’s equally comfortable coaching teams and presenting externally, a habit rooted in early tutoring and internal evangelism that helps him translate technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, 74, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, 74 at Curtin University
c#, java, rails
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
security9
expressjs8
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
testing6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
artsy/force
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
The Artsy.net website
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 6 commits, 44 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell contributed to the Artsy.net website by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to various aspects of the application. Their work included adding a price histogram to the artist series page using TypeScript and React, removing outdated authentication references, and sanitizing untrusted redirect URLs for security. Additionally, they made changes to the redirect functionality within the application and performed refactoring by removing legacy API references.
reactjavascriptartsyexpress-jsgraphql
Mitch-Henson/anotherquirkydev
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
This will be the code that runs the website: http://anotherquirkydev.com
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
cssjavascriptruns
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