Jefferson Heard
Chief Architect at Teamworks
Riner, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJefferson Heard is a Chief Architect and seasoned technology leader with over 16 years of hands-on experience scaling cloud-native SaaS from greenfield to million-plus DAUs and helping companies grow from Series A to unicorn stage. He has led re-platforming efforts with zero service interruption, built SRE and cloud teams, and driven SOC2, FERPA and GDPR compliance across products on AWS and GCP. As a founder and former CTO, he blends entrepreneurial grit with executive-level diligence—having led nine M&A technical diligences and post-merger integrations—while still shipping bleeding-edge architectures and ML-enabled features. Passionate about renewable energy and outdoor life, he also translated domain expertise into a solar construction SaaS used in over 30MW of projects, showing he connects technical strategy to real-world impact.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Central ArkansasMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyStartups: KFBS Launch The Venture, Startups: KFBS Launch The Venture at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Github Skills (55)
django-celery9
json9
geographic9
react-component9
django-admin8
react8
android8
linux8
forms8
kivy8
json-schema8
data-validation8
ios7
rethinkdb7
windows7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jeffersonheard/ga_ows
Jan 2012 - Aug 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 2 years 7 months
pythonweb-mapdjangoogcmap
jeffersonheard/ga_resources
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:22 commits, 1 push in 6 months
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