Sam Heilbron
Software Engineer at SweatBank
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Heilbron is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building maintainable, scalable systems and a focus on enhancing education through collaborative, explorative technology. Based in Greater Boston, he currently develops cloud-native infrastructure at solo.io and contributes backend improvements to an API/AI gateway project that expose and configure server header transformations for finer HTTP connection control. As co-founder of SweatBank he architected domain-driven microservices and built a React Native TypeScript mobile app backed by Apollo GraphQL, blending product instincts with hands-on engineering. His background spans analytics, real-time bidding, and embedded sensing work from roles at InsightSquared, Nanigans, and Imprivata, showing comfort across distributed systems and low-level signal processing. He brings an educator’s perspective from years teaching STEM curricula and running randomized studies, helping him design systems that prioritize usability and learning outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The Roxbury Latin SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Engineering at Tufts University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
http10
go10
api10
apidoc10
envoyproxy9
api-gateway9
kubernetes8
grpc8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 releases, 3125 reviews, 207 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam's commits focus on enhancing the API Gateway's functionality by exposing and configuring the transformation of server headers, a key feature in managing and customizing HTTP connections. The commits involve modifications to the API definition (Gloo API), implementing plugins, and testing, all related to the configuration of HTTP connection manager settings. These changes extend the existing API to provide more control over the server header transformation behavior within the API gateway.
api-gatewayfeature-richgrpcserverlesslegacy-apps
solo-io/k8s-utils
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 13 reviews, 3 commits in 1 year 8 months
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