Samantha Heck

Samantha Heck has held a variety of positions in the tech industry since 2014. Samantha began their career as an IT Intern at Kootenai Health, where they assisted senior staff in maintaining and implementing an enterprise-level network and implemented a Python tool for automatically configuring devices from a command line. In 2015, they were a Research Assistant at the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, where they ran experiments and collected data using RC robots and analyzed and interpreted these results to write a paper presented at a professional conference. In 2017, they were a Programmer at the Virtual Technology Lab. In 2018, they were a Software Engineer at the Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies. Since 2019, they have been a Software Engineer at Commerce Architects, where they are a full stack developer and project architect, and has owned projects from discovery through completion. Prior to this, from 2016-2018, they were a Lead Software Engineer at Polymorphic Games, where they were the lead programmer and project lead for two different titles, Darwin's Demons and Project Hastur, both available for download on Steam.

Samantha Heck attended the University of Idaho from 2015 to 2019, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.