Philipp Heckel
Chief Technology Officer at Slide
Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolPhilipp Heckel is a Chief Technology Officer and seasoned software engineer with 13+ years building and shipping large-scale, production-grade distributed systems across languages and platforms, with a strong preference for Go. He has led multi-year transformation programs—most notably migrating a 400+ PB backup platform to a horizontally scalable architecture—and designed resilient edge services deployed on 100k devices. A hands-on leader who still enjoys writing code, Philipp spans architecture, team leadership, testing, deployment and production monitoring, and frequently becomes the in-house expert on low-level Linux and systems engineering. He founded and maintains the open-source push-notification service ntfy and has contributed to notable projects like Syncany and MySQL orchestrator tooling. Based in Fairfield, CT, he combines CTO-level strategy with deep implementation experience, from ACME certificate automation at scale to kernel-level upgrade mechanisms.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Semester Abroad, Business Informatics, Semester Abroad, Business Informatics at Singapore Management UniversitySemester Abroad, Business Informatics, Semester Abroad, Business Informatics at University of SussexMaster of Science, Business Informatics, Master of Science, Business Informatics at University of Mannheim
German, English
Stackoverflow
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security
top-5%
websocket
top-5%
Github Skills (39)
api-rest10
file-management10
sqlite10
apidoc10
api-design10
mysql10
restful-api10
high-availability10
system-management10
java10
system10
javas10
go10
api10
management10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
binwiederhier/ntfy
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 releases, 120 reviews, 1276 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily focused on adding and modifying back-end functionality, particularly in relation to handling user accounts and their associated features. The commits show changes to database schemas, implementation of new features, such as supporting web push subscriptions with associated phone number verification using HTTP calls. The work also includes modifications to handle administrative tasks.
pushphonentfypush-notificationscurl
syncany/syncany
Dec 2012 - Jul 2016
Syncany is a cloud storage and filesharing application with a focus on security and abstraction of storage.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1984 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Philipp's commits primarily focus on implementing and modifying REST API features within the Syncany cloud storage application. They made changes to various Java files in the `syncany-lib` module, including the WatchRunner and related handler classes. The user appears to be involved in adding features for managing and processing file-related events, such as restoring and listing files.
filesharingsecuritycloudcloud-storagestorage
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