Miciah
Henderson

I graduated from the University of Akron with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and a minor in Physics when I was eighteen. A year before that I started working at Gertrude, a small company building powerful parental controls for Apple platforms. I built all the frontends across the web, iOS, and macOS (React, SwiftUI, and native webviews, respectively), dipped my toes in some backend work, and learned a lot about what it means to deliver a polished, performant, and intuitive experience to real users.

I left Gertrude in the summer of 2025 after working there 3 years to spend some time branching out, building my own products, and trying new and different technology. I built Resolve, a native iOS app written in Rust + SwiftUI on the client with a Rust (Axum) backend for tracking and sticking with resolutions. I'm just about ready to ship Replist, another iOS app for musicians written with pure native SwiftUI.

In my spare time I'm always learning and tinkering with new things. I'm fascinated by every layer of tech stacks, from caring deeply about every pixel and crafting delightful and intuitive UIs to how optimized compilers are written, and have dipped my toes in a whole lot of different areas. Last year I spent a bunch of time streaming on YouTube, writing my own statically-typed systems programming language called Lovely, that compiled straight to x64 NASM. No vibes, no llvm, just pure authentic grass-fed free-range artisinal Rust. The VODs are a pretty good window into how I think and work on my own, with the caveat that this was an area in which I was entirely learning as I went and had no prior experience in.

I've toyed with a whole bunch of other learning projects, as the genuinely curious tend to. I wrote a custom type definition language for an app I was working on at one point, a 3D terrain generation algorithm in OCaml, an open source optimized background image component for Next.js with a friend back in the day that we ended using in production at Gertrude, a custom web framework written in Rust built on Axum that I still chip away at on occasion, and a whole lot more.

When I'm not programming, I play a whole lot of music (piano and banjo, mostly improvisation and composition focused), enjoy spending meaningful time with friends (relationships are immensely important to me), and spend lots of time outside (I've run a couple trail marathons, backpacked 84 miles in four nights, led canoe trips at summer camps, helped lead group rappelling trips down 120-foot cliffs, stayed up all night in a rowboat catching catfish, etc.).

I value integrity, humility, and craft a whole lot, and am really interested in working at a company where those three things are promoted and sought after in every decision. Beauty is in the details, and I thoroughly enjoy sweating those details and making sure software is truly delightful and elegantly constructed before shipping to the end user.