Timothy Van Heest
Director Of Product at Visa
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Van Heest is a product and analytics leader with 12+ years building ML-driven fraud, risk, and security solutions across startups and enterprise payments teams. He has led analytics organizations at Featurespace (through its acquisition by Visa) and now drives MLOps for Visa’s Payments Risk products, combining hands-on model delivery with productized services, tooling, and go-to-market strategy. His background spans computational chemical physics research to architecting data-security SaaS at Ionic, giving him a rare mix of scientific rigor and practical system design. Timothy excels at turning complex, real-time systems into approachable workflows for analysts and customers, hiring and scaling teams to do it reliably. He’s particularly drawn to problems that block human understanding of complex systems and builds processes and platforms to remove that friction. Based in Atlanta, he pairs deep technical fluency (data engineering, ML, real-time systems) with strong product and operational instincts.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, N/A, High School Diploma, N/A at Rockdale Magnet School for Science and TechnologyM.S., Chemical Engineering, M.S., Chemical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBE, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Mathematics (minor), BE, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Mathematics (minor) at Vanderbilt University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
middleware10
scheduler10
json10
apache10
python10
docker-compose10
monitor10
graph10
elastic10
machine-learning10
kibana10
websocket10
orchestration10
outlier-detection10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
turtlemonvh/traffic-monitor
Oct 2013 - Feb 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
turtlemonvh/node-gulp-experiment
Mar 2015 - Jul 2020
Experiment with gulp for organizing assets for a multi-page project.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
gulp-plugingulpjavascriptmulti-pageproject-page
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