Chris Heckathorne
Senior Technical Lead at Suzy
Albany, New York Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Heckathorne is a Senior Technical Lead with 13 years of experience designing and modernizing backend systems, from large-scale ASP.NET platforms to AI-driven, multi-step agent workflows. Based in the Albany NY metro area, he excels at bringing clarity to complex distributed systems through simple architectures, observable patterns, and developer tooling that measurably improves velocity. At Suzy he built an end-to-end "Chat with Your Data" system using custom MCP agents, LangGraph-style orchestration, FastAPI services, and Postgres-backed conversation state to safely query hundreds of millions of survey responses. He champions engineering quality—expanding automated tests from zero to 10,000+ checks—and mentors teams to adopt maintainable practices that reduce regressions. Known for pragmatic migrations and performance-focused infrastructure work, he also has deep roots in embedded/C++ device drivers and high-throughput web systems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering at Binghamton University
Github Skills (41)
client-library10
api-client10
sdk10
recaptcha10
dotnet9
spam9
octokit-net9
csharp9
api9
azure-pipelines8
protect8
moq8
minimize8
windows7
azure-devops7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
goalie7960/octokit.net
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
api-clientapidotnetclient-librarycsharp
goalie7960/slackbot-test
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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