Leigh Heyman

Leigh Heyman
Leigh Heyman speaking at Digital Summit AZ (2015)
Born (1971-08-07) August 7, 1971
Residence Boston, MA
Nationality American
Alma mater

Sarah Lawrence College

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation digital transformation consultant

Leigh Heyman is the former director of new media technologies for the Obama White House, where he served from 2011 to 2015.[1]

Prior to serving in the Obama administration, Heyman ran the technology infrastructure for Blue State Digital, the digital political consulting firm for democrats, including the Democratic National Committee and the Barack Obama presidential campaign. At MySQLConf 09, Heyman stated that his team managed the technology platform for the winning campaign, which ultimately helped raise over $500 million online, sent two billion emails to 15 million recipients, and saw traffic up to 4,300 hits per second.[2]

In 2011, he was recruited by a former colleague to join the White House digital team.[3] At the White House, Heyman focused on supporting the digital program for President Obama, focusing largely on Whitehouse.gov using open source technology like Drupal and We the People to allow people to petition the administration on any issue. He and his team were also responsible for the high-traffic live stream of the State of the Union speech, given by the President.[4]

He oversaw the release of APIs permitting external access to data created by the We the People petition website. With the release of the "write API", Heyman helped exposed the first U.S. government API permitting data to be written on systems by outside third-party applications.[5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "What I Wear to Work: At the White House | Washingtonian". Washingtonian. 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  2. ↑ O'Reilly (2009-04-25), MySQLConf 09: Chuck Hagenbuch, "Database We Can Believe In: Stories from the Front Lines and Server Rooms of Barack Obama's Online Presidential Campaign", retrieved 2018-04-30
  3. ↑ "Direct from the White House: APIs are key to extending platforms". Opensource.com. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  4. ↑ "Leigh Heyman on how the White House engages its constituents". AZ Tech Beat. 2015-02-06. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  5. ↑ "A Write API for We the People". whitehouse.gov. 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  6. ↑ "The New We the People Write API, and What It Means for You:". whitehouse.gov. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  7. ↑ "White House launches 'Write' API for We the People platform - Fedscoop". Fedscoop. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
  8. ↑ "API expands 'We the People' petitions -- GCN". GCN. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
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