Chris Heckman
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
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Chris Heckman is a senior UX/Product designer with over a decade of experience turning complex, data-heavy systems into clear, accessible user experiences for public sector, e-commerce, and industrial clients. Based in the Detroit metro area, he has led design systems and 508/WCAG-compliant interfaces that reduced development time and improved workflow efficiency across SaaS platforms and internal tools. Chris combines hands-on UI craftsmanship in Figma with user research, usability testing, and analytics-driven iteration to boost conversion and operational clarity. He bridges design and engineering tightly—documenting system logic and guiding implementation through QA—to ensure scalable, maintainable products. Unusually for a designer, he also has back-end development contributions to high-profile open-source tooling (improving memory-handling in the NSA’s Ghidra decompiler), reflecting a rare fluency in both interface and low-level technical concerns. He brings pragmatic collaboration and a history of evolving cross-platform design systems that balance regulatory constraints with measurable business outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science in Visual Design and Web Media, Design, Bachelors of Science in Visual Design and Web Media, Design at Ferris State University
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
decompiler10
cprogramming-language10
reverse-engineering10
decompile10
data-structure9
debug9
data-structures9
memory-management9
debugging9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 548 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris made multiple commits focused on enhancing Ghidra's decompiler functionality. Their work included adding a new "guardStore" to a C++ decompiler implementation, along with refactoring the code. They also introduced the "indirect_store" flag, improved the handling of variable-length data-types, and refactored portions of the codebase. This implies a focus on improving the decompiler's ability to handle the nuances of memory access.
ghidrasoftware-analysisengineeringdisassemblerreverse-engineering
caheckman/ghidra
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
ghidraengineeringsrereverse-engineering
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