Brent Heeringa
CTO at SwiftComply
Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Heeringa is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of industry experience and a deep academic background (PhD in Computer Science). He has a track record of building and scaling products from startup to acquisition—co-founding Valt (acquired by Dropbox) and later leading engineering and product teams at Dropbox and Materialize. Brent specializes in bridging research-grade systems and product engineering, having steered Materialize’s transition to a scalable SaaS and guided cross-functional teams through complex platform migrations like Dropbox Passwords. Now leading product and engineering at SwiftComply, he focuses on impactful water-tech solutions that combine technical rigor with regulatory and customer needs. Previously a tenured computer science professor and department chair, he brings a rare mix of academic depth, operational leadership, and hands-on startup experience to product strategy and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science Mathematics, BA Computer Science Mathematics at University of Minnesota MorrisDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
spanish (sort of)
Github Skills (17)
postgresql10
mysql10
data-warehouse10
kafka10
distributed-systems10
internals10
sql10
stream-processing10
rust10
materialize10
sql-database10
database10
streaming-data10
streaming10
materialized-view9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
heeringa/aoc
Dec 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
heeringa/digits
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:47 PRs, 82 pushes, 49 branches in 2 months
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