Henry Dotson
Engineering Manager at Justworks
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolHenry Dotson is a Senior Software Engineer in the NYC area with 11+ years blending data engineering, DevOps, and full-stack Ruby on Rails development. He excels at automating repetitive work—favoring pragmatic scripting in Ruby and Python—and ships features for eCommerce and SaaS platforms while maintaining data warehouses on AWS. His toolkit spans Ruby/Rails (his strongest), JavaScript/React, SQL, D3.js, and configuration automation, informed by hands-on sysadmin and IT management experience. At companies from Moda Operandi to Justworks he’s built integrations, deployment automation, and reporting pipelines that support frequent, agile releases. Trained in environmental science and social psychology, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-thinking approach to product and operational problems. Outside work he tinkers with code and maintains a public GitHub presence, reflecting a continuous curiosity for practical engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Environmental Science, Master of Science (MS) Environmental Science at Pace UniversityBachelor's degree Social Psychology, Bachelor's degree Social Psychology at Hampshire CollegeStuyvesant High SchoolApp Academy
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (56)
pan8
panzoom8
pointer-events7
geocoding7
css-transforms7
wysiwyg7
rich-text-editor7
sprockets7
html6
svg6
currency6
css6
jam6
fundamentals6
react5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
l3iodeez/Spatio-temporal-Data-Exploration-Tool
Aug 2015 - Apr 2023
Rails app for displaying water level data
Contributions:95 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 9 months
rails-app
hdotson1/Scribbleships
Nov 2015 - May 2026
Contributions:19 PRs, 90 pushes, 7 branches in 10 years 7 months
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