Ned Henry
Software Engineer at HealthSherpa
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNed Henry is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building full‑stack web applications and developer tools, now based in San Francisco and currently at HealthSherpa. He has a strong track record delivering production systems for enterprise-scale ML data pipelines, digital libraries, and open source plugins—bringing both product-focused pragmatism and deep technical craftsmanship. Ned’s background includes leading full‑stack development at UC Santa Cruz and Binti, and building tooling that helps human annotators generate ML training data more efficiently. He pairs industry-standard coding practices and strong communication with a research pedigree—a Physics PhD from UC Berkeley and prior experimental work at CERN and quantum nanoelectronics labs. Colleagues describe him as self-motivated, personable, and drawn to teams that balance collaborative knowledge sharing with focused independent work. An active open‑source contributor, he enjoys quickly learning new technologies and turning them into tangible, maintainable projects.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Harvard University
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Github Skills (59)
omeka10
plugin10
rails-app10
metadata9
bulk-update9
editing9
exports9
collections9
ruby-on-rails8
slug8
controlled8
rails8
ruby8
youtube8
minecraft8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
UCSCLibrary/digital_collections_dev_docker
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
Repository for docker-compose scripts used to develop our hyrax-based dams
Contributions:1 PR, 64 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
dockercomposedocker-composehyraxdams
UCSCLibrary/BulkOps
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
A plugin that adds bulk ingest and bulk update functionality to Hyrax based repositories
Contributions:209 commits, 1 PR, 82 pushes in 2 years 1 month
repositoriesminecraftbulk-updatepluginspigot
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