Jacob Heider
Open-Source Software Developer at tea.inc.
Claremont, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Heider is an open-source software developer and engineering leader with 10+ years building systems that let fewer people do more—spanning network engineering, systems administration, web development, and product-focused dev work. He currently contributes to tea.inc and has driven significant improvements in package tooling and build systems as a full‑stack/DevOps contributor to pkgx (including platform detection, caching and mass-build/checksum innovations). Previously he led engineering teams at MyHealthily and Candor USA and founded multiple ventures where he combined technical delivery with customer-facing operations. Comfortable from datacenter networks to application code, he excels at turning operational pain points into automated, reproducible solutions. Based in rural New Hampshire, he brings an entrepreneur’s pragmatism and a penchant for elegant engineering tradeoffs—check out tea.xyz for an example of a solution he helped build.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS/BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, BS/BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstMaster of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Brandeis University
English
Github Skills (16)
management10
environmental10
deno10
manage10
go10
package-management10
build-automation10
scripting9
cicd9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
shell9
version-control9
script9
sh9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
pkgxdev/pkgx
Jun 2022 - Mar 2023
Run Anything
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 100 reviews, 96 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jacob significantly contributed to the `pkgxdev/pkgx` repository, focusing on enhancing the package management and runner functionality. Their work involved refactoring code related to platform detection, caching mechanisms, and build processes. They also made improvements to the build system, including the introduction of a mass-build architecture and checksum validation.
next-generationwindowspackage-managerlinuxenvironment-manager
pkgxdev/pantry
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
pkg manifests
Contributions:295 reviews, 326 commits, 3393 PRs in 7 months
package-manifests
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