Jerry Heiselman
Assistant Vice President at Rain and Hail Insurance
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Heiselman is an experienced infrastructure and monitoring leader with 12 years in enterprise systems engineering and a decade-plus career advancing to Assistant Vice President at Rain and Hail Insurance. He brings deep expertise in application and system monitoring, observability platforms (IBM Instana, Splunk), and cloud-native tooling including Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu, and SaltStack certifications. Prior roles at Wells Fargo and Mediacom show a strong track record of building single-pane-of-glass monitoring, automations, and custom integrations across complex UNIX, Solaris, and networking environments. He contributes to open-source, notably backend improvements for the widely used matterbridge project, enhancing cross-platform messaging integrations and Slack/Discord handling. Based in Des Moines, he combines hands-on technical delivery with leadership in incident triage and performance reporting, often translating low-level telemetry into actionable business insights. Colleagues value his pragmatic automation mindset and ability to modernize legacy monitoring stacks while maintaining operational reliability.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Certification, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer at Hamilton College
Github Skills (13)
go10
slack10
discord-js10
discord10
api-design9
api9
apim9
php-java-bridge8
jsbridge8
react-native-bridge8
irc3
matrix3
telegram3
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
42wim/matterbridge
Jul 2017 - Apr 2020
bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 43 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jerry primarily contributed to the backend of the matterbridge project, focusing on integrations with various messaging platforms. They implemented features related to Slack, including thread management, URL parsing, and slash command handling. Additionally, the user addressed Discord integration by implementing user mentions and optimizing file downloads. These changes improved compatibility and functionality across supported communication bridges.
discordgitterirckeybasemattermost
jheiselman/xbone
Jun 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 6 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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