Patrick Heneise
Principal Software Engineer at Zentered
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Heneise is a Principal Software Engineer and hands-on technology leader with over two decades turning ideas into production-grade JavaScript and Node.js systems, currently driving architecture and delivery at Nevados. He combines deep full-stack engineering with DevOps and automation expertise—particularly GitHub Actions—and has built scalable backends and GraphQL APIs for high-throughput IoT telemetry and dashboards. As a founder and former CTO, he blends product sensibility with engineering rigor, mentoring teams and shaping sustainable development practices across startups and marketplaces. An active community builder, he co-founded BarcelonaJS and the Cyprus Developer Community, helping connect thousands of developers. His open-source contributions include practical UX and SEO improvements to widely used CNCF project sites like Linkerd and cert-manager, reflecting an attention to performance and developer experience not always visible in senior leaders. Based in Boulder, he pairs academic grounding in media technology with a pragmatic focus on shipping efficient, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Assistant of Informatics, Technical Assistant of Informatics at Heinrich Hertz Schule KarlsruheMSc. Media Technology, MSc. Media Technology at Leiden UniversitySoftware Development, Software Development at Höhere Berufsfachschule für InformatikBSc. Computer Science in Media, BSc. Computer Science in Media at Hochschule Furtwangen
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
css10
front-end-development10
html10
web-development10
react10
seo9
nextjs9
nodejs9
cert-manager9
documentation8
content-management8
hugo8
content-management-system8
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
linkerd/website
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
Source code for the linkerd.io website
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 36 commits, 49 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on enhancing the Linkerd website, specifically implementing blog features. Their contributions included importing data, creating templates for blog lists and single posts, and incorporating images. Furthermore, they addressed performance issues by loading scripts asynchronously. They also made various SEO improvements, updated community pages, and refined design elements, demonstrating a broad range of web development skills.
kuberneteslinkerdservice-mesh
cert-manager/website
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Source code for the cert-manager.io website, including project documentation
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 20 PRs in 21 days
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the cert-manager website's front-end, focusing on UI and documentation improvements. Their work included fixing the website's footer background, adding an `h1` header to documentation pages, and addressing relative links and trailing slashes for correct navigation. They also fixed a duplicate protocol issue in the URL generation logic.
cert-managercertkubernetesproject-documentation
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