Rob Heckart
Principal Software Engineer at Cision
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolRob Heckart is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience building and architecting large SaaS applications, currently leading development of cloud-native systems at Cision. He combines deep hands-on expertise in C#, .NET (including .NET 8), SQL Server/Postgres, and modern front-end frameworks with practical cloud and orchestration experience across Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and Kafka. Rob has operated both as a multi-team engineering manager and a solo technical lead, running global teams, mentoring developers, and shaping hiring and career calibration practices. He is pragmatic about performance—regularly tuning C# and SQL Server code—and focuses on delivering resilient, scalable solutions that map directly to product needs. An early adopter and teacher, he started mentorship programs at multiple organizations and even holds an FAA single-engine pilot license, reflecting a methodical, safety-minded approach to complex systems. Based in Chesapeake Beach, MD, he stays current through freelance projects and continuous learning across cloud and modern web stacks.
13 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Sciences General, Computer and Information Sciences General at University of Maryland Global CampusComputer and Information Sciences General, Computer and Information Sciences General at Villa Julie College
English
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Github Skills (63)
ecommerce9
semantic9
php9
adobe8
vuejs38
vuetify8
vue8
vue-component8
sdk8
typescript8
barrage8
windows8
magento8
javascript8
ui-components8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rheckart/angularjs-service-azuremobileservices
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 1 month
0x4447/0x4447_product_aws_region_warning
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
A simple Chrome extension that screams if you are in the wrong region based on the default setting.
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
chromeregionsettingchrome-extension
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