Heiko works at Vector Informatik GmbH as a principal software engineer for PREEvision, a model-based tool for holistic design of electric/electronic architectures. He is responsible for developing the Eclipse IDE and Eclipse RCP Platform, which is the base technology for the PREEvision tool, in terms of open-source contributions to that project. He is Eclipse committer to the Eclipse platform project, coordinator of the cross-company “Initiative 31”, an effort to modernize the UI technology of the Eclipse platform, and chair of the Eclipse Planning Council.

Before his work at Vector Informatik, Heiko worked as a researcher and postdoctoral researcher for software engineering with a focus on model-driven software development at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In his PhD thesis, he researched how engineers can preserve the consistency of multiple models they use to describe the specific parts of a system according to their individual roles by combining model transformations to transformation networks.