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Heneli K.

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Founding Engineer at Greybeam
📍 Pleasanton, California, United States

Heneli is a Founding Engineer at Greybeam, specializing in data-intensive applications and backend architecture. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara, he has extensive experience with Haskell, AWS, and OLAP data warehouses. Colleagues praise him as a "fantastic engineer" who rapidly became an expert in technologies like ClickHouse.

He is passionate about the foundational principles of technology, especially database internals and functional programming. This interest extends to personal projects, where he designed a distributed, local-first coding platform with interactive courses, demonstrating a commitment to developer education and solving complex engineering challenges.

He loves learning about the specific algorithms and data structures used to power data-intensive applications.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Founding Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
Pleasanton, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Heneli shows up

Value Driven
Assertive
Curious

They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince. They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.

Priorities

Topics Heneli cares about

Database Internals
He has a stated passion for the algorithms and data structures that power databases and quickly became a subject matter expert on ClickHouse in a previous role.
Functional Programming
Expresses a passion for applying functional programming principles and has significant professional experience developing core backend services in Haskell.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Founding Engineer
Greybeam
3-2024 - 3-2025
Senior Software Engineer
Scarf
3-2022 - 8-2023
Indie Software Developer
Independent
2-2021 - 10-2021
Senior Software Engineer
TVision
7-2018 - 2-2021
Software Engineer
TVision
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
UC Santa Barbara
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