Summary
Kurt Heiden is a pragmatic full stack developer based in Colorado with over a decade of hands-on experience turning manual processes into automated, cloud-native solutions. He has driven integrations and product engineering at Google and now runs his own consultancy, kheiden.com ltd., helping teams design, implement, and maintain software across multiple cloud platforms. Kurt’s background spans operations, support, and product roles where he repeatedly delivered large efficiency gains—automating 14-hour workflows down to minutes and porting monitoring systems into serverless architectures. He pairs practical scripting and Python expertise with modern web and AI experimentation, and is comfortable navigating RFC-driven API design as well as production observability. Notably, he combines enterprise reliability experience with a tinkerer’s curiosity for novel AI and web technologies.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
College of San Mateo