Ethan Heppner
Researcher & Writer at Technology Transformation Services (TTS)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Heppner is a researcher and writer in Chicago with a decade of experience blending technical problem-solving, program operations, and hands-on IT training. A returned Peace Corps Volunteer, he built and sustained a public high school computer lab in Burkina Faso—fundraising, repairing over 100 machines, training teachers and students, and reinvesting proceeds to scale the program. At the U.S. government's Technology Transformation Services he translated user research into operational tools and automated workflows using advanced Google Sheets and Apps Script, including an ATS and a micropurchase bot that streamlined thousands of transactions. He publishes forward-looking analysis on the future of work and occasional AI deep dives through 2120 Insights, bringing a practical, systems-minded perspective to predictions. Comfortable wearing many hats, he combines cross-cultural teaching experience, technical maintenance skills, and product-focused research to make complex systems more usable and sustainable.
10 years of coding experience
B.A., Economics, B.A., Economics at Grinnell CollegeWhitney M. Young High School
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (35)
policies10
recurly10
breakout10
traffic10
web-traffic9
forum9
django8
statistics8
analytics7
transparency7
authentication7
php7
api7
rest-api6
restful6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ethanheppner/handbook
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
The home of policies and guidelines that make up TTS.
Contributions:8 PRs, 98 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
policiesguidelinestts
18F/tts-micropurchase-bots
Jul 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 11 comments in 9 months
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