Cal Henderson | |
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 Cal Henderson in 2010 | |
| Born | Callum James Henderson-Begg 17 January 1981 (age 42) |
| 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.
Henderson attended Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College, [1] and Birmingham City University where he graduated with a degree in software engineering in 2002. [2]
Henderson is best known as the co-founder and chief technology officer at Slack, as well as co-owning and developing the online creative community B3ta [3] with Denise Wilton and Rob Manuel; being the chief software architect for the photo-sharing application Flickr [4] (originally working for Ludicorp [5] [6] and then Yahoo); and writing the book Building Scalable Web Sites [7] for O'Reilly Media.
He has also worked for EMAP as their technical director of special web projects [8] and is responsible for writing City Creator [9] among many other websites, services and desktop applications. Cal was the co-founder and VP of engineering at Tiny Speck, [10] the company whose internal tool transitioned into Slack.
Henderson's connection to Stewart Butterfield and Slack began through a game developed by Butterfield's first company, Ludicorp, called Game Neverending. He ran a fan website dedicated to the game and broke into an internal Ludicorp mailing list. Instead of repercussions, Butterfield hired Henderson to work for his company. [5]
Henderson is color blind, and has worked on applications to make the web more accessible to the color blind. [4] 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.
In August 2022, Henderson contributed $50,000 to The Next 50, a liberal political action committee (PAC). [11]
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