Summary
Leeland Heins is a Senior Software Engineer with roughly nine years of recent professional experience and a decades-long history building database-backed web applications, ETL pipelines, and system automation across Unix/Linux environments. He specializes in open source technologies and has delivered production systems in Ruby, Java/Spring, Perl, Python, PHP and C, often deploying to AWS with PostgreSQL or MySQL backends. Leeland has balanced hands-on engineering with leadership and consulting roles—running his own firm, leading small teams, and contracting for clients in healthcare, biotech, government and enterprise. He’s comfortable across the stack from embedded Linux builds and Android to Solr search ingestion and large-scale data migrations, and brings deep operational knowledge of systems administration on Linux/Solaris. Based in Pflugerville, Texas, he combines pragmatic scripting and automation skills with engineering discipline honed over decades on both legacy and cloud-native platforms. A quietly entrepreneurial technologist, he often serves as the bridge between infrastructure, data, and application layers to simplify complex integrations.
9 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Diploma, Diploma at Ames High