Twitter: @heckj, Facebook: ccjoe, Linkedin: josephheck
Work Experience & Projects:
- CTO, SunLink
- Director, Dell EMC
- Founder and VP of Engineering, Renasar Technologies
- VP of Engineering, Nebula Inc
- Director of Automation and Cloud Services at Disney Connected and Advanced Technologies
- 24 years experience in development, system administration and system analysis.
- 15 years experience leading and mentoring engineering and development staff.
- Proven ability to create and direct effective teams to accomplish amazing things.
- Diverse experience encompassing both small organizations and large institutions.
- Lead and managed systems and teams across multiple geographic locations and time zones.
- Software development using NodeJS, Python, Objective-C, C#, Perl, C, and Java,
- Distributed Systems, web services, micro-services, and application development including:
- MacOS desktop, IOS and Android mobile development
- Holistic and deep involvement with development, quality assurance and operations for multiple web based service platforms.
- Test directed development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
- Extensive experience using, contributing and leading with open source software
- Kubernetes member and contributor
- Project Technical Lead (Keystone) and OpenStack contributor
- Author: Kubernetes for Developers
Education:
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, May 1990 from University of Missouri – Columbia, MO.
Affiliations
- Member of ACM
- Founder, Seattle Xcoders SIG
- Kubernetes Member and contributor
- Technical Committee member and Contributor to OpenStack IaaS platform
- Contributor to Keystone (identity and authorization system) and OpenStack in general
