Summary
Quentin Headen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Virginia Beach with 14 years of professional experience and a strong focus on backend and full-stack web systems. He has led teams and built APIs and data synchronization services using C#, .NET Core, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch, and currently contributes to engineering at Stack Overflow. His background includes full-stack development with React, TypeScript, PHP/Zend, and Docker-driven developer environments, showing comfort across languages and operational workflows. Quentin is driven by continual learning and exploring new tools and methods, pairing curiosity with practical delivery on internal and public-facing applications. He brings hands-on leadership from Technical Team Lead roles to individual contributor impact, often solving integration and data consistency challenges that sit between systems. Off the clock he’s the kind of programmer who “loves cool code,” reflecting a genuine enthusiasm for elegant, maintainable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer