Heston Liebowitz
Senior Director Of Engineering, Smart Grilling at Weber LLC
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolHeston Liebowitz is a pragmatic engineering leader with 13 years of senior technical and organizational experience and two decades of product and consulting work through his firm. He has built and scaled multi-disciplinary teams of 60+ engineers to ship complex hardware-software products—most recently leading Weber’s smart grilling platform and mobile apps after guiding a cloud migration that cut outages 92% and supported 10x traffic growth. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and a director, Heston’s background spans cloud infrastructure, web and mobile front ends, IoT firmware, and testing automation, and he contributes to notable open-source projects like flask-restful and django-extensions. A people-first manager who blends UX instincts from Google with startup founder grit, he repeatedly turns messy, cross-domain problems into reliable, mass-market systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Management of Innovation Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, Certificate Management of Innovation Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at University of California, BerkeleyBS Business Administration, BS Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Spanish
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Github Skills (22)
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
django10
restful-api10
testing10
flask-restful10
rest-api10
encryption10
unit-testing9
security9
angular-ui-router9
angularjs9
documentation9
pypi9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
flask-restful/flask-restful
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Simple framework for creating REST APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Heston focused on enhancing the documentation and functionality of the flask-restful library. They added documentation regarding nested attribute access and modified how argument help messages are formatted within the request parser. Furthermore, the user addressed compatibility issues by making string formatting compatible with older Python versions and ensured exception handling was safe across Python 2 and 3. This work primarily involved modifications to the request parsing and field handling aspects of the library.
apisimple-frameworkrestfulrestrest-api
django-extensions/django-extensions
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
This is a repository for collecting global custom management extensions for the Django Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Heston primarily contributed to the `django-extensions/django-extensions` repository by enhancing encrypted field functionality within the Django framework. Their work included implementing configurable methods for obtaining the `Keyczar` class, which enabled public-key decryption, and addressing style violations. The user also fixed a bug related to handling public and private keys, and added specific tests related to public keys. These changes improved the security and portability of the encrypted fields.
pythondjango-frameworkextensions-managementdjangocollecting
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