Chris Heisel
Head Of Product at Square
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Heisel is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 17 years building and scaling web, mobile, API and infrastructure platforms, currently leading product across Square’s Commerce Foundations including Identity, Security, KYC/KYB and device onboarding. He combines hands-on technical experience—contributing to Django and CI tooling—with a track record of turning big visions into shipped products like Square’s Terminal and Payments APIs. Known as a servant leader, he scales teams, instills measurement-driven continuous delivery, and mentors future managers to improve cycle time, quality and team health. Comfortable operating at both tactical delivery and strategic roadmap levels, he repeatedly secures investment to expand platform capabilities while maintaining reliability and compliance. An early career background in journalism and media management informs his focus on clear communication and product usability.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
Stackoverflow
181reputation
39kreached
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
python10
django10
testing10
coverage10
cicd10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
web-development10
unit-test10
automation9
automations9
database-management9
bash8
sa7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stephenmcd/django-forms-builder
Oct 2010 - Oct 2010
Let users build forms in Django admin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Django-based form builder application. Their contributions included correcting site imports, fixing method calls, and addressing a bug related to how the admin interface rendered with site functionality. They also made improvements to code formatting and white space. These changes improved the maintainability and correct functionality of the application.
pythonadmindjangoletgrav-plugin
kmmbvnr/django-jenkins
Jul 2010 - Jul 2010
Plug and play continuous integration with django and jenkins
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the continuous integration and testing aspects of the project. Their contributions include fixing import issues, adding support for South (a Django migration tool), and fixing syntax errors. They refined the testing process by incorporating features like the '--noinput' command handling, verbosity control and excluding specific modules from coverage reporting, while also integrating test coverage generation into the CI/CD pipeline.
jenkinspythonjenkins-cidjangotesting
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