Hey there, I’m Henry!
I’m a software engineer living in New York City. I lead development at Megaflora, a software studio I started to make high-quality, open source software. I recently attended the Recurse Center.
Previously, I was a senior software engineer at Beacons, a software engineering intern at Dendron, and a cofounder of Modern.fm.
I specialize in product engineering for web applications, where I can understand a problem deeply and implement a solution for it across the stack. If you would like to work together, don’t hesitate to get in touch!
About Me
I am passionate about building beautiful and impactful software. I love the process of understanding user pain points, coming up with a great UX, and creating apps that are a joy to use. I thrive with lots of autonomy, and enjoy the process of taking a project from ideation to completion. I can work in both full-stack roles and in more frontend-focused ones, and pride myself on being a “design capable” developer.
I’m always working on a project. I’m most known for Open IPA, an IPA transcription tool that helped 58K people this year learn how to pronounce Latin and French text. My favorite project to demo is overtone.fyi, a fast Fourier transform-powered visualizer for singing education. Recently, I’ve started working on Serial, an RSS reader designed to help people bring control back to their media consumption.
I’m especially interested in music, sustainably-built software, collaborative or interactive software, and civic tech. If you have any opportunities in those areas and if you’d like to work together, don’t hesitate to reach out!
Experience
Recurse Center
3.0 months
A programming retreat I attended for 12 weeks in Downtown Brooklyn. I’ve written about my reasons for attending and what I worked on in my first six weeks.
Participant
Nov 2025 - Feb 2026
Beacons
3.5 years
An all-in-one creator platform for building a link-in-bio, selling products, sending emails, and more. I worked across the stack and led major feature and architectural work.
Senior Software Engineer
Oct 2025 - Nov 2025
Software Engineer II
Sep 2023 - Oct 2025
Software Engineer I
Jun 2022 - Sep 2023
Modern.fm
2.25 years
I was the sole technical cofounder at this company selling premade and custom instrumental sample packs. Everything was built from scratch, including a robust custom order system, a sample pack marketplace, and a landing page for weekly pack giveaways.
Cofounder
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
Dendron
3.0 months
A seed stage startup building a knowledge management tool into VSCode. I worked on a variety of features, most notably the graph view.
Software Engineering Intern
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
MLH Fellowship
3.0 months
Built a proof-of-concept LMS (learning management system) with a small team. Led frontend development, designing and implementing interfaces to view courses, take quizzes, and fulfill other LMS functionality.
Fellow
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Projects
Over the past year, my projects have had:
90.3K
visitors
190.3K
pageviews
3.2K
hours spent
Serial
A minimal and snappy web-based RSS reader, designed primarily for video content.
Open IPA
A real-time IPA transcription tool helping people learn how to pronounce French and Latin (specifically, for classical voice).
Listen Together
An open-source social music platform for friends to listen to music in sync with one another through Spotify.
Tone Sandbox
The home for a variety of experimental music apps, including a music sequencer, theremin emulator, MIDI piano, and Fast Fourier Transform visualizer.
Languages
Frameworks
Svelte
Technologies
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Loyola University Chicago
I was president of Loyola’s computer science club Don’t Panic! during my senior year, helping to host events and foster community.
B.A. Music (Voice)
Loyola University Chicago
During my time at Loyola, I wrote an original choral piece and performed an hour-long senior recital with pieces in a variety of languages.
Awards and Press
Mention in The Hustle
July 7th, 2023
My theremin project was given a shout out in The Hustle, Hubspot’s daily newsletter with 2M+ subscribers.
Hackathon Winner
June 14th, 2020
I was the winner of the “Happy at Home” track of the Same Home Different Hacks Hackathon with
the first version of Listen Together, chosen out of 90+ submissions.