Sam Heyman
Product Manager at Opus Systemer AS
Horten, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Heyman is a product manager with nine years of hands-on systems and software engineering experience, currently focused on high-impact solutions for offshore wind farm operations such as Daily Progress Reporting, vessel management, and certification workflows. He blends rigorous safety-critical avionics experience with fast-paced web product delivery, enabling pragmatic, user-centered design and rapid prototyping across regulated and commercial domains. Sam has led cross-functional teams, driven customer adoption through site visits and in-person support, and built internal automation to speed support and analytics. His background includes developer advocacy and API governance at Amadeus and Skyscanner, plus open-source contributions like a Skyscanner flight-search integration for DuckDuckGo Instant Answers. Comfortable bridging deep technical detail and product strategy, he now applies that breadth to optimize operational reporting and data analytics for offshore energy. Based in Horten, Norway, he balances a technical career with multilingual international experience and a habit of disconnecting from tech to bake, play piano, and spend time with his family.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Certified European PassivHaus Consultant, Architecture, Certified European PassivHaus Consultant, Architecture at University of StrathclydeErasmus year, Flygteknik, Erasmus year, Flygteknik at Linköping UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Avionics Systems Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Avionics Systems Engineering at University of Bristol
English, French, German, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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15answers
7questions
Github Skills (18)
apim10
javascript10
handlebars10
api10
front-end-development10
duckduckgo9
css9
instantsearch9
backend8
back-end-development8
perl7
html6
dart6
firebase6
flutter6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 4 PRs, 19 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the development of a flight search feature within the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers project. Their work involved implementing a Skyscanner flight search spice using JavaScript, Handlebars, and CSS. They refactored the code to improve efficiency and added functionality to display destination images and various flight details, including prices and dates. Furthermore, the user updated the template and added the use of a footer with a template layout.
apijsjavascriptduckduckgoinstant-answers
samheyman/travel-apis
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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