Matt Heindel
Senior Software Engineer at GoodLeap
Napa, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Heindel is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of professional experience who turned an early career as a wine chemist into a software-driven mission to automate and improve workflows. He builds full-stack web applications and APIs—accelerating development cycles, improving performance at scale, and standardizing state management—using Node.js, React, SQL, and cloud tooling. His background in laboratory automation led to measurable operational gains (e.g., automating instrument interfaces and managing 30k samples/year), and he brings that same data-driven mindset to designing robust, testable systems. A hands-on mentor and collaborator, he has coached cohorts at Hack Reactor and contributed to multiple greenfield and open-source projects, favoring pragmatic engineering and CI-driven development. Based in Napa, he pairs technical curiosity with an appreciation for user feedback—finding satisfaction in hearing how his tools improve others’ work—while balancing life with photography, biking, and technical podcasts.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's degree, Chemistry at University of California, DavisSoftware Engineering Immersive, Software Engineering Immersive at Hack ReactorChemistry, Chemistry at Diablo Valley College
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Github Skills (5)
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Github contributions (5)
Team-Burberry/Gamut
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:31 reviews, 23 PRs, 45 pushes in 12 days
matt-heindel/dotfiles
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 3 months
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