Vincent Heuken
Autism Specialist, Mod Severe, SCIA Para-Educator
Tehachapi, California, United States
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Top SchoolVincent Heuken is a versatile software engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale machine learning experiments, real-time multi-user web apps, and a cross-platform game engine with live scripting and UDP networking. He has a strong open-source streak—contributing kernel fixes, maintaining the video_info Ruby gem (including YouTube API updates and scraper fallbacks), and improving provider matching and tests. Based in Tehachapi, California, he pairs hands-on backend expertise with practical operational skills, having worked at Ezoic and Digital Domain and driven tooling that supports complex state and scalability. More recently he combines technical work with community-facing roles in education and transportation, holding a California Class B commercial license with passenger and school bus endorsements. Known for tackling both low-level janitorial kernel work and high-level system design, he brings curious, pragmatic problem-solving to multidisciplinary teams.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS (anticipated), Plant Sciences, Associate of Science - AS (anticipated), Plant Sciences at Bakersfield CollegeGPA: 2.61, GPA: 2.61 at Chabot CollegeA, A at Diablo Valley CollegeA, A at Contra Costa College
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Github Skills (6)
apidoc9
api9
rspec8
python5
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thibaudgg/video_info
May 2015 - Aug 2017
Get video info from Dailymotion, Vimeo, Wistia, and YouTube URLs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 355 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily focused on implementing and refining features related to video information retrieval. They added functionality to disable specific video providers, implemented case-insensitive matching, and made minor code refactoring and cleanup. Their contributions also included test improvements and API key management for third-party services.
urlswistiayoutubevideo-infodailymotion
vheuken/SDL-Render-Thread-Example
Sep 2014 - May 2022
An example
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 10 months
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