Cal Henderson
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| Born | Callum James Henderson-Begg 17 January 1981 (age 43) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | computer programmer, author |
Callum James Henderson-Begg (born 17 January 1981), known as Cal Henderson, is a British computer programmer and author based in San Francisco. He was educated at Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College.[1]
He is best known for being the cofounder and CTO of Slack (software), as well as co-owning and developing the online creative community B3ta[2] with Denise Wilton and Rob Manuel; being the chief software architect for the photo-sharing application Flickr[3] (originally working for Ludicorp[4][5] and then Yahoo) and writing the book Building Scalable Web Sites[6] for O'Reilly Media. He has also worked for EMAP[6] and is responsible for writing City Creator[7] among many other websites, services and desktop applications. Cal was the co-founder and VP of engineering at Tiny Speck,[8] the company whose internal tool transitioned into Slack (software).
He is color blind, and has worked on applications to make the web more accessible to the color blind.[9] He is also a frequent contributor to open source software projects and runs a number of utility websites, such as Unicodey, to make certain programming tasks easier.
References
- ^ "Cal Henderson is the co-founder of the San Francisco-based Tiny Speck". June 2014. |publisher= Sharnbrook Upper School
- ^ "Interview with B3ta co-founder Rob Manuel". BBC. August 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
- ^ "About Flickr". Flickr. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
- ^ "The Ludicorp Team". Ludicorp. Archived from the original on 10 June 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
- ^ "The Team: Web Development Lead: Cal Henderson". Ludicorp. Archived from the original on 11 February 2004.
- ^ a b "O'Reilly catalog - Building Scalable Web Sites". O'Reilly Media. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
- ^ "City Creator - Yahoo! picks for September 16, 2003". Yahoo!. Retrieved 12 June 2007.
- ^ "Companies > Tiny Speck". Crunchbase.
- ^ Color Vision - by Cal Henderson
External links
- Personal website
- b3ta
- Flickr
- Tiny Speck
- City Creator
- GitHub contributions
- 2006 Future of Web Apps Talk
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