JR Heard
Senior Software Engineer II at Grow Therapy
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJR Heard is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable backend web systems and improving code quality at scale. He’s led technical efforts at companies from Yelp to Seesaw and Ride Report, delivering features that changed product behavior (activity feeds, policy enforcement, billing) and introducing static typing (Mypy, Pyright) to make large Python codebases safer. Known for pragmatic functional programming—pure functions and immutable patterns—he focuses on maintainable, easy-to-understand systems that “don’t go bump in the night.” Based in Portland and Stanford‑educated, JR blends hands‑on implementation with tech leadership, mentoring teams and raising codebase ratings through tooling and standards. He’s also the author of a personal site (jrheard.com) where he shares thoughts and projects, reflecting a quieter but consistent commitment to craft.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (200)
opencv10
image-processing10
realms10
deep-learning10
mobility10
two-way10
resource-sharing10
rendering10
computer-vision10
rust10
netsuite10
geofencing10
rfc10
mds10
renderer10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jrheard/advent_2018
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
advent of code 2018 solved in rust
Contributions:4 PRs, 157 pushes, 11 branches in 2 months
rustsolvedrust-lang
jrheard/jrheard.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:73 commits, 163 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 8 months
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