Heather Payne
Co-Owner at Sheertex
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHeather Payne is a technology entrepreneur and education leader who founded Juno College of Technology (Canada’s original programming bootcamp) and grew it to serve over 1,500 students annually before its final cohort in 2023. She is currently Co-Owner of F45 Training Parkdale, applying her community-building and scalable operations experience to a new venture. A passionate advocate for underrepresented groups in tech, she founded Canada Learning Code and led Mozilla’s Hive Toronto initiative to cultivate youth as creators, supported by significant funding. Her impact has been recognized with honors such as Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and Globe and Mail Innovators at Work, underscoring her cross-sector influence. She serves on the board of Sheertex and previously on PARC, blending strategic leadership with hands-on program delivery and a broad educational foundation from Ivey, Western, Xiamen, and HKUST.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
HBA, HBA at Ivey Business School at Western UniversityInternational Baccalaureate Diplma & OSSD, International Baccalaureate Diplma & OSSD at Turner Fenton Secondary SchoolThe University of Western Ontario, LondonXiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, P.R. ChinaHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (5)
meta8
css7
javascript6
question-answering6
react1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pearlchen/LLC-HTML-CSS
May 2013 - Sep 2013
Ladies Learning Code - Introduction to HTML & CSS
Contributions:23 commits in 3 months
cssjavascriptcss3html-css
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