Christopher Heller
Engineering Manager II at Toast
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Heller is an engineering manager and full-stack engineer with a decade of experience leading teams and shipping backend-to-frontend systems from Somerville, MA. Currently an Engineering Manager II at Toast, he combines hands-on expertise in Kotlin, Java, Node.js, React and ElasticSearch with operational experience on AWS to deliver scalable, data-driven products. His background spans startup product work—building FinTech governance analytics and D3 visualizations—to leading production teams at a fast-growing payments/restaurant platform. Trained in neurobiology at Harvard and later in full-stack JavaScript, he brings a researcher's curiosity and rigorous problem-solving to engineering leadership. Colleagues know him for pairing practical architecture choices with curiosity about new languages and distributed systems (from Clojure and Pulsar to Kafka and Datomic).
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Neurobiology, AB, Neurobiology at Harvard UniversityFullstack Javascript, Fullstack Javascript at Fullstack Academy of Code
French, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
angular-service9
nodejs8
javascript7
spotify-api7
sql7
spotify6
orm6
mssql6
typescript6
sqlite6
json6
postgresql6
mysql6
database5
microsoft-sql-server5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ctheller/outdoor-store
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:53 PRs, 73 pushes, 39 branches in 8 days
ctheller/visify
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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