Henry Lyford
Engineering Manager at Cartwheel
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Lyford is an experienced engineering manager based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building and leading teams across mission-driven startups and education-focused platforms. He has progressed from hands-on roles (frontend and backend engineering at Edmodo, Nimble, and TeacherFindr) to senior leadership positions at Two Chairs, Evergrow, and now Cartwheel, combining product instincts with delivery and scaling expertise. Henry excels at shipping full-stack solutions—API design, React frontends, and integrations with third-party services—while also hiring and mentoring engineers to grow high-impact teams. His background includes founding-engineer experience at a YC startup and practical achievements like optimizing search performance and converting monoliths into RESTful architectures. He brings a blend of operational rigor and empathy for user-facing education and mental-health products, and a track record of stepping into roles that require both technical depth and organizational scale.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Economics-Accounting Graduated with Honors, B.A. Economics-Accounting Graduated with Honors at Claremont McKenna College
Github Skills (13)
api10
player10
python9
rich-text-editor7
wysiwyg7
quill5
javascript4
css4
extensibility4
editor4
react3
audience2
docker-desktop1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
commonsense-org/desk-support-center
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Styles for the desk.com help center
Contributions:369 pushes in 10 months
centerhelp-centerdeskcssjavascript
hlyford/thumbcheck
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:68 pushes, 117 branches in 22 days
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