AJ Heflin
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAJ Heflin is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of full-stack experience building backend services and responsive front ends, currently contributing to Red Hat after a multi-year engineering role at The Walt Disney Company. He’s proficient in JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, and AWS, and has hands-on experience deploying bare-metal clusters and building CI/CD pipelines with GitLab Runner. AJ combines production-grade backend development with frontend fluency, having shipped Spring Boot APIs and Redux-powered UIs earlier in his career. A Florida State University computer science alum based in Tampa, he brings a practical, security-minded approach from internships to enterprise systems. Perpetually learning, he focuses on backend architecture while retaining the ability to move full-stack when projects demand. An understated strength is his operational experience—setting up infrastructure from the ground up—which helps bridge development and platform teams.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, B.S. Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, B.S. Computer Science at Florida State University
German, Spanish, Dutch
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
risk-analysis10
alerts10
security10
kubernetes-security10
hardening10
k8s10
utility-mod7
minecraft7
minecraft-fabric7
entity4
olingo4
jpa3
odata3
metadata3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ajheflin/ajheflin
May 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
ajheflin/ajheflin.github.io
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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