Ross Hendry
Senior Software Engineer at Wave Mobile Money
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRoss Hendry is a senior full-stack engineer based in Edinburgh with 11 years of experience leading Agile teams through design, delivery and long-term maintenance of web and backend systems. He has held senior and lead roles across fintech and consultancy environments—from Mastercard and Bank of Scotland to Wave Mobile Money—bringing a track record of shipping reliable, scalable products. Ross is pragmatic in both hands-on coding and technical leadership, driving TypeScript adoption and developer experience improvements as evidenced by contributions to the high-profile Gatsby project (adding TSV parsing and migrating core pieces to TypeScript). Comfortable across the stack, he blends product-focused thinking with operational sensibility and a knack for refactoring legacy workflows into maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 2:1, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 2:1 at The University of Edinburgh
Stackoverflow
9,156reputation
3.4mreached
113answers
21questions
sed
top-5%
java
top-1%
awk
top-5%
regex
top-5%
hex
top-1%
Github Skills (27)
hex10
typescript10
java10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
gatsby10
react10
awk9
javascript9
regex9
sed9
graphql8
wordpress-graphql8
wpgraphql8
web-application7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ross contributed to the `gatsby-transformer-csv` plugin, adding TSV parsing capabilities and allowing filtering by file extensions. They refactored and converted inference metadata to TypeScript, improving type safety and code maintainability within the Gatsby core. Further contributions included migrating build-example-data and source-nodes to TypeScript, along with jaeger-local, demonstrating a focus on TypeScript adoption and improving the project's build and development workflows.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
chooban/wk-leeches-greasyfork
Mar 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.