John Heffner
Software Engineer at Row Zero
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Heffner is a seasoned software engineer with 26 years of experience building high-performance systems, currently focused on creating the world's fastest spreadsheet at Row Zero. His background spans kernel work, distributed systems, network protocols and performance from roles at Vertica, Aurora, NetApp and research at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, where he helped develop new transport protocols and Internet standards. He blends curiosity-driven research with pragmatic engineering, preferring solutions that are both elegant and production-ready. Based in Pittsburgh and CMU-educated, he has a track record of optimizing data-intensive systems and shipping robust software across startups and enterprise teams. A detail not always visible from titles: he thrives on squeezing latency and throughput gains from the stack, often finding novel protocol- and kernel-level levers to accelerate applications.
26 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (35)
sdk10
cpp10
azure-sdk9
azure9
google-cloud7
moto7
orc6
low-level6
terraform5
java5
google-cloud-platform5
cloud-platform4
storage4
terraform-provider4
aws4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
johnwheffner/azure-sdk-for-cpp
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for C++. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-cpp.
Contributions:10 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year
cppversionedsdkconsumersazure-sdk
jyundt/oval
Aug 2016 - Aug 2020
The Oval
Contributions:59 PRs, 78 pushes, 71 branches in 4 years 1 month
oval
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