Rune Soerensen
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Heroku
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRune Soerensen is a Principal Member of Technical Staff based in Alexandria, VA with 14 years of engineering experience and a background as a founder and CEO of AppHarbor. He combines deep backend engineering chops—illustrated by contributions to legacy GitHub services integrating AppHarbor build triggers—with product-level leadership from running a cloud platform. Now at Heroku, he focuses on scalable platform engineering while bringing entrepreneurial instincts from Y Combinator and a B.Sc. in Business Administration and Philosophy. Rune’s blend of hands-on integration work, systems thinking, and company-building gives him a practical edge in turning developer workflows into robust, production-ready services.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Administration and Philosophy, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Administration and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business SchoolAalborghus GymnasiumHerningvej Skole
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Github Skills (17)
apidoc10
testing10
ruby10
api10
http-request10
json9
asp-net-mvc9
amazon-s39
github-services9
heroku9
faraday8
nginx6
paas6
paperclip6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
github/github-services
Sep 2011 - Dec 2011
Legacy GitHub Services Integration
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:38 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rune primarily worked on integrating a service for AppHarbor within the GitHub services framework. Their contributions involved adding service stubs, defining configuration settings, and implementing the `receive_push` method to send data to AppHarbor for build triggering. They also focused on formatting the data payload, making HTTP requests, and adding necessary headers, with subsequent improvements to the code. Furthermore, the user wrote tests to verify the communication with AppHarbor by validating the authorization token, header information and payload content.
github-servicesintegration-services
appharbor/AppHarbor.NET
Mar 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 8 months
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