Karl Heitmann
Software Engineer
Valparaíso, Valparaiso Region, Chile
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Top SchoolKarl Heitmann is a pragmatic full‑stack software engineer with 11 years of experience and a 6+ year focus on Ruby on Rails, building scalable, well‑tested web applications and APIs. He pairs back‑end expertise (Rails, database performance, RSpec) with modern front‑end skills (React, Vue, Node ecosystem) and a habit of improving code quality through reading and contributing to open source. Comfortable across languages—Ruby, JavaScript, Python—and experimenting with Rust and systems work, he’s delivered features and optimizations for US clients as a remote contractor while also shipping freelance projects and teaching Rails. Based in Valparaíso, Chile, he brings an electronics engineering background that surfaces in thoughtful system design and experience integrating embedded platforms, like Raspberry Pi, with web and mobile apps.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree on electronics, specialty in computer science & minor degree on physics, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Engineer, Engineer's degree on electronics, specialty in computer science & minor degree on physics, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Engineer at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
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Github Skills (129)
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firefox-addon10
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command-line-tool10
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code-analyzer10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
KarlHeitmann/karlheitmann
Aug 2020 - May 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
KarlHeitmann/rg_explorer
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Rip Grep Explorer. A TUI wrapper for RipGrep
Contributions:106 commits, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
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