Nat Henderson-cox
Product Design Engineer at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNat Henderson-cox is a multidisciplinary product design engineer with 12 years of experience blending mechanical design, hardware production, and cloud-enabled software tooling to bring resilient products to market. Currently at Apple and previously leading sensor hardware at StormSensor, Nat has taken concepts from napkin sketches to 500+ units/month production, designing for harsh environments and long battery life while building automated test and data pipelines. He pairs hands-on fabrication and fixture design with backend and DevOps chops—contributions to major open-source projects like Terraform providers and GoogleCloudPlatform tooling evidence his cloud infrastructure and automation expertise. A former metrology department coordinator for Microsoft hardware programs, he balances team leadership and project management with deep technical skills in GD&T, FAI, and test automation. Fluent in both engineering and the arts, he brings an unusual mix of creative problem-solving, field-tested product durability focus, and production-scale execution.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish Language and Literature, Spanish Language and Literature at Universidad de Playa AnchaBachelor of Arts - BA, Fine and Studio Arts, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Fine and Studio Arts at Middlebury CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, 3.86, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, 3.86 at University of Washington Bothell
English, Spanish
Github Skills (35)
apim10
google-cloud-platform10
python10
cluster-computing10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
cicd10
gcp10
terraformer10
go10
api10
devops10
clustering10
ias10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nat-henderson/terraform-provider-dominos
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
The Terraform plugin for the Dominos Pizza provider.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nat contributed significantly to the backend logic of a Terraform provider for Dominos Pizza. They refactored the order creation process, including implementing a waiting mechanism to confirm order delivery. This involved interacting with an external API and parsing XML responses. The user also implemented data sources for addresses, stores, and menu items, enhancing the provider's capabilities. Finally, they integrated logging for debugging purposes.
providerdominosdominos-pizzaterraform-pluginterraform
GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
Jan 2018 - Jan 2022
Add Google Cloud Platform support to Terraform
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:166 reviews, 896 commits, 639 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Nat primarily worked on integrating MagicModules with Terraform, establishing the initial CI system and related tooling. They developed scripts for automating code generation, managing dependencies, and handling pull requests. Their contributions focused on setting up the infrastructure and automated processes to build the Google Cloud Platform support for Terraform from changes in the MagicModules repository.
golanggcpappenginegooglecloudgooglecloudplatform
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