Summary
Edward Heyne is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years of professional experience and a Master’s in Computer Science, currently leading software engineering and DevOps efforts at Applied Research Laboratories after shaping product and team strategy at a pre-revenue FinTech startup. He combines deep systems skills in C/C++, Linux, CMake, and GitLab with cloud and full-stack experience (Python, JavaScript, AWS, React Native) to deliver secure, maintainable B2B software. Edward has a track record of reducing development cycles through roadmap-driven cross-functional collaboration and CI/CD automation, and he championed feature flags, SonarQube, and Docker adoption to improve release velocity and code quality. He balances hands-on engineering (100% unit test coverage on a homegrown front end, Diffie-Hellman no-trust architecture) with people leadership—recruiting, mentoring, and cultivating engineering culture. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he also brings teaching and curriculum experience from academia, which fuels his focus on best practices like TDD and SOLID design.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at The University of Akron
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Governors State University
c#, c++, vb.net, ruby, java, javascript