Rose Heinzelman
Senior Software Engineer at Justworks
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRose Heinzelman is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building web applications and mentoring engineers. She progressed from educator to developer—teaching full-stack web development at Flatiron School before shipping production software at The Huffington Post, Imprint Gift, and Justworks, where she has been a senior engineer since 2019. Comfortable across Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, and developer tooling, she pairs deep teaching experience with a pragmatic approach to debugging and developer experience. Her background in classroom instruction and curriculum design gives her a particular strength in onboarding, code reviews, and creating clear technical documentation. Rose also brings data-driven program management skills from earlier nonprofit education roles, making her adept at translating user needs into measurable product outcomes. Based in NYC, she blends pedagogy and engineering to help teams learn quickly and ship reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts, Sociology at Barnard College - Columbia UniversityMaster of Science, Childhood Education, Master of Science, Childhood Education at Queens CollegeWeb Development, Web Development at The Flatiron School
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Github Skills (28)
mruby9
blackjack8
collections8
ruby-application8
package8
ruby8
rubygems8
square7
packaging7
package-manager7
activerecord6
todomvc6
database6
ruby-on-rails6
emberjs6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
roseweixel/neighborhood-buzz
Apr 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
roseweixel/lacquer-lover
Nov 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:607 commits, 10 PRs, 423 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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