David Heise is a mission-driven software engineer and Principal Investigator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he leads the CIPHER program from Knoxville, Tennessee. With 12 years across commercial and government research, he blends hands-on development with strategic research leadership. His work includes building high-performance pipelines to visualize gwPheWAS data (PheWeb) and contributing to Hyperion, the R&D 100-winning software static analysis product. He has helped advance privacy-preserving vehicle-to-vehicle communications and leads DevOps efforts for health data projects. A UTK alumnus, he earned an MS in Computer Engineering and remains focused on scalable web applications and secure, automated deployment pipelines using Podman, GitLab, and Azure.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering, 3.69, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering, 3.69 at University of Tennessee-Knoxville
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