Paul Henshaw
Director Of Technology And Development at Global Earthquake Model Foundation
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolPaul Henshaw is a experienced technology leader and software engineer with over three decades in international R&D and more than a decade leading development teams, currently serving as Director of Technology and Development at the Global Earthquake Model Foundation. He blends hands-on software and database development, GIS-driven interactive mapping, and embedded/mobile systems expertise with program and budget management, contract drafting, and stakeholder liaison across international projects. A proponent of agile methods and open source communities, Paul has a track record of building interdisciplinary teams and shipping distributed, standards-driven software from research prototypes to production. His background spans telecoms, digital TV set-top platforms, in-car telematics, and scientific computation, reflecting comfort with both low-level protocols and high-level metadata/modeling. Notably, he has contributed engineering work back to standards bodies (e.g., W3C/Jigsaw) and managed patent and IP strategy, combining technical depth with governance and legal awareness.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mayflower High SchoolSt. Anselms, BasildonBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Kent
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (71)
risk-analysis10
python10
exposure10
scientific-computing10
hazard10
risk-assessment10
hpc10
refer9
android-app9
loss9
wps7
opcodes7
spatial7
epos7
qgis7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gem/ged4all
Jul 2017 - Feb 2022
Database schema and prototype code for GED4ALL, a project to construct a Global Exposure Database for Multi-Hazard Risk Analysis
Contributions:22 PRs, 58 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 7 months
riskhazardrisk-analysisprototypedatabase
pslh/MiniEPG
Apr 2015 - Mar 2020
Crea EPG per BlobBox
Contributions:23 PRs, 32 pushes, 20 branches in 4 years 11 months
creaepg
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