Summary
Don Heins is a pragmatic software engineering manager with nine years of tech experience and a MS in Computer Science, currently leading Partner Integrations, Ledger, and Scheduled Transactions teams at US Bank. He has a track record of cutting project timelines by several developer-weeks through process improvements and reusable patterns while reducing live-site incidents and hotfixes. Don excels at resolving long-standing technical debt by aligning product and engineering priorities, and his standardized checklists and templates have been adopted organization-wide. He pairs hands-on delivery experience across Java, C#, Angular, and AWS with a collaborative leadership style that navigated difficult team dynamics to improve morale and productivity. A former Marine and GIS technician, he brings discipline and a data-driven mindset to building reliable financial systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at DePaul University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Meteorology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Meteorology at Northern Illinois University