Summary
Sebastian Heidbrink is a seasoned Smalltalk specialist and consultant with 13+ years delivering architecture, framework and webservice solutions—primarily in VASmalltalk—for financial and enterprise clients. As President of Heidbrink Consulting he combines hands‑on implementation (including OpenGL bindings, Seaside, unit testing and GemstoneDB) with advisory work for banks and large corporates. He has a strong background in hierarchical graph visualization/modification, automation of legacy Smalltalk systems (UI modernization and packaging), and neural-network integration in legacy stacks. Comfortable operating across research and product contexts, he’s known for rapidly assimilating new domains and applying extreme programming techniques to complex modernization projects. Based in Nanaimo, Canada, he also brings academic rigor from interdisciplinary graduate studies and early university research on networked mechatronics and multi-criterion optimization.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
stopped out, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, stopped out, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Paderborn University
Masters, Interdisciplinary Studies, Masters, Interdisciplinary Studies at Royal Roads University
software development, software development at Richard-von-Weizäcker-Berufskolleg
German, English, French