Brad Heller
Co-founder, CTO at dltHub
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Heller is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 15 years building scalable cloud and data platforms, now co-founding and serving as CTO of Tower.dev, a new data platform-as-a-service. He combines hands-on engineering chops—demonstrated by contributions to open-source projects like feedjira—with senior leadership experience at Snowflake, Puppet, and Cloudability. Based in London, he mentors startups through Techstars Berlin and advises early-stage companies including dltHub and several AI tooling teams. His track record includes multiple exits and technical co-founder roles, showing an ability to turn prototypes into acquisition-ready products. Known for pragmatic engineering and a taste for clean parsing and data problems, he quietly digs into tricky integration and date-parsing edge cases that most teams overlook.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science with Computer Systems option, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science with Computer Systems option at Oregon State University
English, German, Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
atom-editor10
rss10
ruby10
feedparser10
parsing10
parse10
testing9
parserator9
parser9
xml6
xml-document6
nhibernate6
configurations6
windows6
winforms6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
feedjira/feedjira
Feb 2012 - Feb 2012
A feed parsing library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Brad contributed to parsing and processing different feed formats within the `feedjira/feedjira` repository. They focused on enhancing the parser by including support for Google Docs Atom feeds and also updated existing parsing methods. In addition to feature implementation, the user also refactored the existing code by correcting warnings and fixing date parsing issues. Furthermore, the user wrote tests for both the Google Docs Atom feed parser and its associated entry parser.
parsingparserrss-parserfeed-parsingrss
bradhe/epee
May 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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