Heather Ellsworth
Sr. Developer Relations Engineer
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolHeather Ellsworth is a senior Developer Relations engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging firmware, systems, and developer ecosystems, currently shaping integrations at the Thunderbird Project. With a physics background and a history working on projects from HP firmware to HPE Linux and DNS security, she excels at translating complex technical work into clear documentation and reproducible developer workflows. At Canonical she improved snap integration for desktops, ensuring upstream metadata and store-ready snaps while raising documentation quality for future contributors. Her time at Purism combined testing, developer docs, and project management for privacy-focused hardware, reflecting a rare mix of hardware empathy and software delivery. A steady open-source advocate who also admits to loving cats, she leaves a literal trail of documentation and reproducible artifacts that make onboarding and maintenance smoother. Based in Colorado Springs, she brings scientific rigor to software problems and a knack for communicating technical detail to diverse audiences.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at The University of Texas at Arlington
Spanish
Github Skills (162)
minecraft10
highlighting10
thunderbird10
snap10
linux10
software-update10
sdk10
distribute10
image-manipulation10
gnome10
platform-sdk10
virtualbox10
syntax-highlighting10
gnu10
calculator9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ubuntu/gnome-mines
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Clear hidden mines from a minefield
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 commits in 10 months
hiddenminefieldminesclear
ubuntu/evince
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Document viewer for popular document formats
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 2 commits in 7 months
pdfdocument-viewerdocxviewerformats
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