# Ted Henkels

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tedhenkels

Senior full stack engineer with over 7 years of experience developing applications across various technology stacks that range from Scala and Play to Python and Django. I have a proven track record of adapting to a multitude of engineering environments, working on both backend and frontend sides of the application.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ DrumWave Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
- Architected and delivered a scalable distributed service built on NestJS, Postgres, and Kafka, with well-defined
data models and event-driven processing.
- Developed a reusable identity and authorization layer integrating AWS Cognito to standardize authentication and
role-based access across services.
- Led a team of six engineers to deliver a 0–1 web platform, establishing API contracts, data models, and
overseeing frontend implementation.
- Led an international engineering team across time zones, driving architectural alignment, code quality, and
effective CI/CD practices.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Carta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Built RESTful APIs using Python and the Django framework to support an in house contract service
- Created a user interface for contract service using Javascript and React
- Collaborated cross functionally to ensure service successfully integrated with other domains within the organization
- Assisted in the development of a subscription service that processed nearly 300 million dollars in ARR

### Software Engineer @ eBay
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Built Scala based web applications
- Assisted in developing an e commerce platform
- Adopted resiliency strategies to ensure service was always accessible
- Technologies include: Play framework, Drone, Git, Google Cloud Services

### Software Developer @ StubHub
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco
- Built Java based REST APIs
- Implemented asynchronous processing with Kafka 
- Assured Quality of front end applications using Selenium
- Leveraged Facebook's login to build out own social network. Notifying users when a friend had purchased a ticket to an event
- Java, Spring, Maven, JUnit, TestNG, REST, Kafka, Solr, Hbase, SQL


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
San Francisco State University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ted-henkels
- Website: https://www.tedhenkels.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22