Christopher Henning
Site Reliability Engineer, Senior at Akamai Technologies
Acton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Henning is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and automating resilient infrastructure, currently shaping Akamai’s Intelligent Edge. He combines deep ops and performance expertise—from managing diverse UNIX environments at IBM to cloud migrations and automation in AWS—with hands-on scripting in Python, Bash, and Perl to drive reliability and observability. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he improves backend tooling such as the EDMarketConnector project, integrating game telemetry with EDDN and cleaning up code quality. Based in Acton, MA, he brings a security-minded, documentation-first approach to systems engineering and a track record of mentoring teams and introducing practical automation to reduce operational toil.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (6)
api10
python10
apidoc10
json9
logging8
debugging7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
EDCD/EDMarketConnector
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Downloads commodity market and other station data from the game Elite: Dangerous for use with all popular online and offline trading tools.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 29 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the `edmarketconnector` project, specifically related to the Elite: Dangerous game data and EDDN (Elite Dangerous Data Network) integration. Their contributions involved implementing features for processing and sending FSSSignalDiscovered data to EDDN, including batching journal entries and handling system address information. The user also addressed code quality by fixing flake8 errors and removing debug messages, improving overall code maintainability.
tradingelite-dangerousfrontier-apieddn
chennin/starsign
Nov 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 4 months
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