# Garrett Heald

> Sr SWE @ Stride Health // check me out @ garrettheald.com

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/garrettheald

Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building backend systems in fintech, healthtech, and defense. Skilled in API design, event-driven serverless architectures, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK). Passionate about designing scalable, reliable platforms that power great user experiences.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Savings Backend @ Stride
Jan 2024 – Present
Designed and developed a fintech Savings & Contributions platform for facilitating distributed payments and savings accounts for users.
Improved skills practicing systems design, event driven serverless functions, email services, finance services.
Solely designed and implemented an emailing API & lambda functions with AWS SES, to send scheduled and transactional emails to thousands of users.

### Software Engineer, Backend @ Stride
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Design, develop, and maintain backend services & databases that support our consumer and partner applications.

### Software Engineer, Full Stack @ SavantX
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Luis Obispo, California Area
Worked with Python and JavaScript to write Full Stack applications.
Flask, Node.js, React.js, Express, MongoDB, Keycloak, and more.

### Systems Administrator & Software Intern @ rfxcel
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
• Installed and deployed Dell PowerEdge Servers, installed hard drives, configured memory and disk enhancements.
• Traveled to Hurricane Electric data center to diagnose and repair memory, storage, or power problems.
• Created set-up and deployment documentation for an internal Java finance application


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/garrett-heald-7519b085
- Portfolio: https://garrettheald.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29