Peter Henderson
Frontend Engineer at HowGood
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolPeter Henderson is a Frontend Engineer with 8 years of experience building developer-focused UIs and interactive documentation platforms, currently shaping developer experiences at HowGood in the NYC area. He combines strong front-end tech (React, Gatsby, Material UI, D3, Mapbox GL) with a long history in technical writing, having designed award-recognized interactive API docs and tooling that translate complex APIs into intuitive developer workflows. His background includes owning external developer documentation, building CI/CD doc pipelines, and creating visual tooling for data delivery and onboarding, demonstrating a rare blend of UX sensibility and systems thinking. With an engineering education (BSc and MS) and earlier work spanning instructional design and support tooling, he often bridges product, docs, and backend teams to ship customer-facing developer experiences.
8 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, BSc, Electronic and Electrical Engineering at The University of EdinburghMS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityCompleted 12 credits in Master of Urban Planning program, Completed 12 credits in Master of Urban Planning program at City University of New York-Hunter College
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Github Skills (4)
jekyll4
jekyll-theme4
api-documentation2
documentation1
Github contributions (5)
peterhend/documentation-theme-jekyll
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
A Jekyll-based theme designed for documentation and help systems. See the link for detailed instructions on setting up and configuring everything.
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes in 19 days
everythingsettinginstructionsapi-documentationjekyll
enigmadocs/convert-dates
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
datetimeconversiondate-conversionparser
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