Heather Thacker
Developer Advocate
Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolHeather Thacker is a Developer Advocate with nine years of engineering experience, currently based in Spain and focused on helping developers succeed at companies like Gatling and previously Progress Chef and Grafbase. She blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (Vue.js, React, C#, AWS) with technical writing, teaching, and developer relations to translate complex backend and frontend topics into practical guidance. Her background ranges from building profitable lead forms and greenfield platforms to ETL work in enterprise data warehouses, giving her fluency across web, data, and cloud stacks. As a former instructor and yoga teacher, she brings patience and clear communication to mentoring communities and crafting developer education. Outside tech she’s practiced artisan baking, a detail that surfaces in her methodical, process-oriented approach to shipping reliable developer experiences.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Religion Liberal Arts and Sciences General Studies and Humanities, Religion Liberal Arts and Sciences General Studies and Humanities at The University of the SouthFull Stack, Full Stack at Nashville Software School
Github Skills (54)
api10
backend10
federation9
rust9
webassembly9
graphql9
serverless8
database8
discovery6
landscape6
hacking6
javascript6
pentesting5
chaos5
disclosure5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
trae-pasley/shontraepasley
Nov 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 3 months
hhthacker/HeatherThacker
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Savvy Coders portfolio project
Contributions:13 PRs, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
portfolio-projectcoderssavvy
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