Lawrence Hecht
Principal at Lawrence Hecht Consulting
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolLawrence Hecht is a principal consultant and research analyst with over 25 years of experience turning developer and enterprise IT market data into actionable insights for product, marketing, and policy decisions. He leads Lawrence Hecht Consulting and contributes research and writing to The New Stack, focusing on AI, open source, cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and security. Skilled in survey design, data analysis, and integrating voice-of-customer research with secondary sources, he helps organizations become thought leaders and make evidence-based decisions. Lawrence has a track record of building research functions and early-stage teams—he was an early employee at two companies that were later acquired and helped establish first in-person offices for others. With a Georgetown MPP and a background spanning policy, journalism, and market research, he combines rigorous methodological care with storytelling that resonates across technical and business audiences.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Policy Public Policy, Master of Public Policy Public Policy at Georgetown UniversityEast Brunswick HighB.A. History Political Science Urban Planning, B.A. History Political Science Urban Planning at Rutgers University
Github Skills (81)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
LawrenceHecht/netlify-test
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
test
Contributions:16 PRs, 19 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years 1 month
testing
LawrenceHecht/render-strapi-example
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:26 PRs, 30 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 11 months
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