Brian Heise
Rust Engineer at LevelBlue
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolBrian Heise is a Rust-focused Linux and AWS engineer with 8 years of professional experience and 5+ years building web apps and CLI tools in Rust and TypeScript. He designs and implements end-to-end cloud systems—authoring Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines (including self-hosted GitHub Actions runners), and production Rust CLIs that provision and configure remote workstations. At Woven by Toyota he combined low-level Linux workstation configuration (including NVIDIA GPU setups for ML) with serverless AWS backends and GitHub Actions automation. His background as a pro translator and international educator informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to tooling and documentation. Based in Tokyo, he brings fluency across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers and a knack for translating complex operational needs into reproducible developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Web Developer, Computer Programming, Full-Stack Web Developer, Computer Programming at Le WagonCollege/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Van Buren High SchoolMaster's degree, East Asian Studies, Master's degree, East Asian Studies at Washington University in St. LouisBA, History, BA, History at Fordham University
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Github Skills (145)
parser10
graph-database10
authorizer10
positional-arguments10
link-checker10
serverless10
nosql10
devtools10
env-vars10
command-line-parser10
sql10
broken-links10
realtime-database10
rust10
developer-tools10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tokyo-rust/website
Apr 2024 - Aug 2025
TokyoRust.org community website
Contributions:6 reviews, 70 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 4 months
toadslop/yama-quest
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Yama-Quest is currently a map app for displaying information about popular hiking mountains in Japan.
Contributions:8 PRs, 162 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
mountainsreactquestyamamap
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