Garret Heaton
Founder at Recheck
Norwich, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarret Heaton is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused products from startup to acquisition. He co-founded HipChat and led its engineering and operations through acquisition by Atlassian, later creating the popular ec2instances.info tool which he sold to Vantage. Comfortable across front-end and back-end work, his open-source contributions include improving HipChat integrations for Hubot and GitHub Services and modernizing ec2instances.info with Bootstrap and dataTables. He blends hands-on engineering with product instincts—shipping tools that help other engineers make infrastructure decisions. Based in rural Norwich, Vermont, he continues to found and advise startups, most recently launching Recheck, bringing veteran startup operator experience to new product builds. A practical tinkerer at heart, he often turns small, well-executed side projects into valuable, widely used services.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Kimball Union AcademyBS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English
Stackoverflow
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137kreached
9answers
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mysql
top-5%
Github Skills (41)
socket-io10
apim10
hubot10
xmpp10
javascript10
develop10
servicebus10
bootstrap10
python10
css10
jobservice10
collectd10
ruby10
service-layer10
socket10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vantage-sh/ec2instances.info
Nov 2011 - Nov 2020
Amazon EC2 instance comparison site
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:349 commits, 88 PRs, 186 pushes in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Garret added links to the GitHub repository in the footer of the website. They also updated the header text to include a mention of the repository on GitHub. Further, they modified the code to use Bootstrap and the dataTables.net library. The user made changes to the CSS and JavaScript to implement these changes.
ecscost-optimizationec2finopscost-estimation
hipchat/hubot-hipchat
Dec 2011 - Jun 2014
HipChat adapter for GitHub's Hubot
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Garret primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Hubot HipChat adapter. Their work included adding features to configure the host server, integrating with Wobot for XMPP communication, and automatically joining rooms upon invitation. Additionally, the user addressed bugs, updated compatibility with newer Hubot versions, and improved the overall functionality and maintainability of the HipChat adapter. The contributions focused on enhancing the adapter's capabilities and integrating it with the HipChat API.
hubotadapterhipchat
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