Abraham Heidebrecht
Senior Staff Engineer at Coast
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbraham Heidebrecht is a Senior Staff Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building user-centric full stack applications and transitioning a long tenure of C# WPF expertise into modern .NET Core microservices. He’s led technical teams at Namely and Rippling and now drives architecture and delivery at Coast, blending hands-on coding with platform-level thinking. Abraham has deep UI sensibilities from years of desktop app design for financial and security domains, yet actively contributes to DevOps work—improving build and release processes for projects like the widely used docker-protoc images. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and release engineering, he excels at turning complex domain rules into intuitive interfaces and reliable services. Known for pragmatism and attention to developer workflows, he brings both legacy application experience and modern cloud-native practices to bear.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at California State University, Fresno
English
Stackoverflow
30,330reputation
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292answers
2questions
xaml
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combobox
top-5%
silverlight
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operator-overloading
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string-formatting
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wpf
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Github Skills (31)
docker10
xaml10
protocol-buffers10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
databinding10
build-automation10
string-formatting10
wpf10
grpc10
image9
converter9
silverlight9
github-ci9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
namely/docker-protoc
Nov 2019 - May 2022
Docker images for generating protocol buffer definitions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 73 reviews, 11 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Abraham primarily focused on enhancing the build and release processes for the Docker images. They introduced support for C# options, fixed entrypoint issues, and updated the base golang version. Further improvements included standardizing build arguments, integrating the release of grpc versions, and adding/fixing the related tests.
protocol-buffersbufferprotobufgrpcdocker
abe545/CodeOnlyStoredProcedures
May 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:52 releases, 330 commits, 46 PRs in 3 years
storeddotnetcallingstored-proceduresno-code
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