John Henson

John Henson serves as a Senior Data Engineer at Cipher Mining.

Prior to joining Cipher, John spent nearly a decade in the Oil and Gas industry as a Petroleum Engineer working the Permian Basin, Bakken, and DJ Basin. As an engineer, he was responsible for equipment installation and maintenance, program economics, and OpEx management. In 2020, John began implementing algorithmic based automation for Oil and Gas equipment resulting in substantial financial savings. Just before joining Cipher, John was an IoT Data Architect at Amazon Web Services.

John received a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Montana Tech and a Master’s in Computer Science from Colorado Technical University.