Shelbyย Heinecke
Research Manager at Salesforce
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolShelby Heinecke is an MIT-trained mathematician and award-winning people leader with nine years of research and applied AI experience, currently managing research at Salesforce in Palo Alto. She progressed from intern roles to Senior Research Scientist and now Research Manager, blending deep theoretical grounding from a PhD with hands-on product-oriented ML research. Her work spans industry research internships at IBM, Intel, and MITRE, signaling comfort moving complex ideas into production contexts. Known for nurturing teams as much as for technical contributions, she brings a rare combination of academic rigor and practical execution across enterprise AI. An understated strength is her sustained trajectory within a single large research organization, demonstrating both technical excellence and leadership continuity.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics at University of Illinois at ChicagoMaster of Science (M.S.), Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.), Mathematics at Northwestern University
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shelbyheinecke/website
Apr 2021 - May 2022
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:27 commits, 65 pushes in 1 year
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salesforce/RGRecSys
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 months
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