Iain Hecker
Senior Software Engineer at Rise Technologies
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolIain Hecker is a senior software engineer with 17 years building scalable web applications, primarily in Ruby on Rails, currently driving engineering at Rise Technologies from Rotterdam. He has led backend architecture and migrations at Teachable—authoring zero-downtime deploys, a one-page checkout backend, and a multi-tenant OAuth provider—and previously served as VP of Engineering where he designed microservices, patented a hotspot-monitoring system, and integrated MQTT, Protocol Buffers, SQS and SNS. A long-time open source contributor and Rails plugin author (notably improving the http_accept_language plugin with test-suite overhauls and Rails/Cucumber integration), he favors clean, maintainable code and pragmatic infrastructure. Beyond hands-on development he’s organized the Rotterdam Ruby user group and helped steer engineering processes and strategy as a tech lead.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BICT, Information Technology, BICT, Information Technology at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
rubygems10
testing10
rspec10
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ruby-on-rails10
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Github contributions (5)
iain/http_accept_language
Aug 2008 - Oct 2016
Ruby on Rails plugin. Fishes out the Accept-Language header into an array.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:27 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Iain primarily focused on improving the `http_accept_language` Ruby on Rails plugin. They refactored code for case correction and improved code formatting. The user also added new methods for preferred language retrieval. Furthermore, they updated the project's testing suite and incorporated various testing frameworks such as Minitest and RSpec, improving code quality and maintainability. Rails integration was also tested with Cucumber.
ruby-on-railsarrayaccept-languageheaderrails
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