Joseph Heideman
Staff Software Developer at ARA
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Heideman is a Staff Software Developer with a decade of engineering experience who transitioned from a Ph.D. in Low Energy Nuclear Physics into building detector interfaces and analysis software in C/C++ and Python. Based in Raleigh, NC, he combines hands-on experimental instrumentation know-how with production software practices at ARA, translating complex physics requirements into reliable data acquisition and simulation tooling. His academic work required deep systems thinking—designing hardware interfaces, writing analysis pipelines, and validating simulations—which he now applies to scalable engineering problems. Colleagues value his ability to bridge lab hardware constraints and software design, bringing rigor from peer-reviewed research into applied development.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, 3.3, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, 3.3 at University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Physics, 3.8, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Physics, 3.8 at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (10)
eagle10
backbonejs9
plt9
capistrano9
screeps8
cockpit7
cms7
simulation6
python6
edtech5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jheidema/paass
Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
pythonpixiesoftware-analysisacquisitionsuite
jheidema/NEXTSim
Nov 2017 - Dec 2021
Simulation software for the NEXT project
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
pythonproject-nextsimulation
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