Christian Heilmann
Software Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorChristian Heilmann is a seasoned web technology leader with over 25 years of experience shaping browsers, developer tools, and front-end architecture across Microsoft, Mozilla, Yahoo and WeAreDevelopers. As Vice President of Developer Relations he runs a global program that blends content, community and recruitment—curating the Dev Digest newsletter and hosting the WeAreDevelopers Live show—to help developers progress their careers. He led the Edge Developer Tools extension at Microsoft (1.4M downloads, 40K daily users) and is an accessibility and Chromium expert who has repeatedly bridged engineering, product and open-source communities. A prolific communicator and educator, he authored the long-running Developer Advocacy Handbook, produces popular video courses and technical writing, and maintains hands-on craft through open-source contributions like scripting features in the Boop scratchpad. Curious about practical AI, he actively integrates ML/AI into developer tooling and programs, combining deep technical credibility with a talent for translating complex ideas to broad audiences.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
html10
text-manipulation10
javascript10
application9
developer-tools9
macos7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
IvanMathy/Boop
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
A scriptable scratchpad for developers. In slow yet steady progress.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs in 29 days
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the `boop` project by implementing and modifying various scripting functionalities. Their work involved adding and improving features within the `Scripts` directory, specifically focusing on text manipulation, such as camelCase conversion and HTML list generation. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs, like multiline errors, within the HTML encoder and ReverseString scripts, showing experience in different aspects of the project. Finally, the user added a Derpify script.
electronscriptableslowscratchpaddeveloper-tools
codepo8/dearconsole
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
A collection of snippets to use in the browser console
Contributions:4 reviews, 202 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
browser-consolebrowserconsolejavascriptsnippets
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