Ethan Hensley

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Summary

Software Developer and Data Analyst skilled in TypeScript, React, Python, C#, and SQL. Experienced in building web applications, data visualization, and deriving insights to optimize workflows.

Experience

Technical Analyst - Knoxville, TN
CGI Federal, August 2025 - Present

• Participate in daily Scrum meetings as a SAP ABAP Developer, lending my expertise to different Agile teams.
• Refine AI generated User Stories with the Financial Team during discovery phase by summarizing and improving.
• Facilitate project workflow by consistently contributing issue updates on the Jira board, enhancing communication among team members and improving task tracking.
• Assist in summarizing sprint for the Scrum of Scrum meeting at the end of sprints.

• Architected and deployed cloud-based microservices utilizing TypeScript and React for enhanced scalability and performance.
• Delivered client-facing demonstrations to gather feedback and implement iterative, client-aligning changes.
• Addressed and resolved SAP ABAP tickets by identifying issues, implementing code changes, and optimizing system performance, ensuring smooth business processes.
• Enhanced team collaboration and project efficiency through use of Jira, ServiceNow, and BitBucket, cutting issue resolution time and boosting on- time task delivery.
• Designed and implemented a Microsoft Power Automate workflow that migrated 500,000+ data records (emails, comments, documents, attachments), from a legacy system to an in-house data storage.
• Created a Microsoft Copilot knowledge base using Microsoft Sharepoint, centralizing documentation and reducing information retrieval time for the entire organization.

• Streamlined ticket management using ServiceNow while collaborating in daily Kanban meetings to track missing assets and maintain direct communication with end users.
• Executed ServiceNow asset verification to track and confirm employee asset connectivity to the TVA VPN daily, managing over 1,000 asset records.
• Updated and closed verification tickets upon confirming asset location and operational status, decreasing unresolved asset cases by 50%.
• Optimized asset return efficiency through diligent cross-checking of shipping labels and addresses, leveraging Microsoft Excel, resulting in successful returns.

Projects

Mo' Rockets
Link to Game, July 2025 - September 2025

• Developed a single-player incremental rocket-building game using Godot Engine with custom art assets and sound design, previously featured on the Newgrounds frontpage.
• Implemented progression system with 12 unlockable rockets, 24 paints, persistent multipliers, and client-side save import/export.
• Optimized cross-platform performance for mobile and desktop browsers, addressing HTML5 rendering constraints.
• Managed full development lifecycle from concept to deployment using version control and agile iteration.

• Developed a high-engagement Discord entertainment bot that serves 100+ random user-submitted images, and image request command response time to under 2 seconds.
• Designed an automated process to detect and add new images to the image collection.
• Coded entirely in JavaScript and used Node.js to interact with the Discord API.
• Deployed and maintained the application on a Raspberry Pi webserver with 98% uptime.

• Performed as a developer on a 7 person scrum-based team for a complex video game website using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages and Model View Controller design patterns.
• Contributed to a large, multi-semester codebase through GitHub, streamlining the project for future developers.
• Implemented an API Gateway that achieved 100% decoupling between the main website and game microservices, enabling fully independent scaling.
• Achieved 95% sprint velocity and 90% sprint goal completion rate through disciplined scrum practices, leading to our team's repository being selected from among 4 competing teams for continued development.

Education

East Tennessee State University - Johnson City, TN
Bachelor of Science in Computing, May 2024
GPA: 3.5/4
Honors and Extracurriculars:

• Dean's List: Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
• Association for Computing Machinery Chapter Member: 2020-24
• Chess Club: 2022-24
• iBucs Contender 2023 (MenYou)

Skills

Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, SQL, HTML5/CSS3, Bash, ABAP, React, Node.js, .NET, Bootstrap, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Microservices, AWS, Azure, Git, GitHub, BitBucket, VSCode, Visual Studio, Jira, MATLAB, ServiceNow, Maximo, Microsoft Power Automate, SharePoint, Office 365