Brandon Heck
Sr. Software Engineer at Hy-Vee, Inc.
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Heck is a senior Java-focused software engineer with over a decade of experience building backend services, reusable platform libraries, and scalable data pipelines for enterprise systems. He has led platform standardization, operational tooling, and security/privacy initiatives at major companies, designing solutions that leverage AWS serverless and containerized architectures and infrastructure-as-code. Known for turning messy, disparate inputs into structured, random-access outputs (Apache Parquet) and for mentoring teams, he bridges hands-on engineering with platform-level thinking. Based in the Kansas City area, he combines a strong academic foundation in computer science (MS) with a practical obsession for developer productivity and operationalization that reduces fault rates and speeds delivery. An often-unspoken strength is his dual role as both implementer and advocate—serving as security and privacy champion while writing the libraries teams rely on.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Applied Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Applied Computer Science at Northwest Missouri State University
English
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Github Skills (66)
fault-tolerance10
uid10
bulkhead10
fault10
resilience4j9
functional-programming9
java9
github-desktop8
typescript8
java-client8
mock-server8
dsl8
github7
electron7
css7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brandonheck/brandonheck.github.io
Feb 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 13 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 10 months
brandonheck/clirr-maven-plugin
Mar 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
maven-pluginjavamaven
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