About Me

Henry Abbott - Software Engineer, Product & Tech Lead and Internet kid since the early AOL days.

I was originally born in Queensland Australia in 1985 and moved to Sydney for a time in the late ’80s as a young kid. In 1989 my family moved to the USA and landed in the Tampa Bay area. We drove across the US in our Volvo station wagon from Florida to Marin County California, to Iowa and then to Portland Oregon for several years.

When I was 6 years old I received a Radio Shack Electronics Project Kit and this set me off on a path of interest in Electronics, circuitry and logic gates.

As an 8 year old in elementary school in 1993 while living in Beaverton Oregon I began an interest in coding when I started working with HyperCard on the Mac Classic. It was also around this time I became an early internet pioneer making first contact with the web via AOL and a 28.8K dial-up modem.

Since 2004 I have lived in the Tampa Bay Area in Florida and now work as team lead and developer building accounting and cash management applications.

Work Timeline

I got into the workforce fast after schooling starting with tech work in the non-profit sector. I got a very solid grounding working as a first line of defense between users and IT providing reports, building basic business automation scripts and getting quick solutions, user interfaces and reports produced.

I spent about a decade starting in 2013 working as a technical lead for NetSuite and some Salesforce implementations. I have worked to lead full NetSuite implementations but primarily worked running a small team of developers to cover all the technical details and customizations needed to get a customer from discovery to live on the NetSuite platform. In this period I worked with a NetSuite Solution Provider partner who grew from founder plus myself to a +100 member five star NetSuite implementation team.

Around 2020 I began to focus on building SuiteApps for the NetSuite platform and in 2024 joined my current company Netgain Solutions working as a Technical Architect overseeing aspects of Product and Engineering work across multiple products.

Robot Invasion

Since 2025 I have been hyper-focused on how to sensibly blend LLMs and the new wave of AI-automation into software products in a way that feels intuitive to end users and provides actual value.

I believe that for an engineer who can wear an “architect” or some “Product” hats, the world is now truly your oyster. There is now truly no hinderance to be being able to build whatever you can visualize and design. If we stay on top of security, data privacy and some of the efficiency and resource impacts of LLMs I think the future looks very bright indeed.