Chris Heikkinen
Director Of Engineering at M1
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChris Heikkinen is a Director of Engineering in Chicago with a decade of experience building full-stack financial and customer-facing platforms using Scala, Akka, Play, Kubernetes and React/Redux. He progressed from hands-on engineering and architecture roles to leadership at M1, where he now oversees teams delivering automated, customizable investment experiences. His background includes deep expertise in Adobe AEM/CQ5 and Salesforce integrations from large-scale CMS and commerce projects, giving him a strong synthesis of enterprise content, CRM, and cloud-native engineering. Known for performance-driven engineering—such as large-content migration frameworks and caching improvements—he combines pragmatic leadership with a continual appetite for new technologies.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonNaperville Central High School
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Github Skills (27)
webpack10
redux10
redux-toolkit10
javascript9
json9
amd9
jsforce9
salesforce-api9
css9
commonjs9
on-demand9
nodejs9
react9
salesforce9
css-modules9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cwheikki/notes
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
cwheikki/salesforce
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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