Andrew Hauck
Engineering Manager at Cloudflare
California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Hauck is an engineering manager with 17 years of experience building and operating high-performance distributed systems, currently leading teams at Cloudflare in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends hands-on systems engineering and management, having progressed from individual contributor roles in platform and security-focused teams to principal engineer and manager positions. Andrew contributes to open-source networking tooling—most notably improving core functionality and TLS/debugging support in Cloudflare's pingora library—showing a deep practical understanding of networking, load balancing, and TLS internals. His background spans startups and scale-up environments (Distil Networks/Imperva, Dwolla) where he focused on resilient, production-grade services. Based in California with a BS in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, he’s comfortable moving between low-level protocol work and team leadership. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who prefers tackling subtle, infrastructure-level challenges that yield outsized reliability gains.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
English
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Github Skills (8)
http10
ss10
sslv310
rust10
ssl10
network-programming10
load-balancing9
grpc8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/pingora
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 reviews, 28 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `pingora` library, focusing on improvements to the core functionality and performance of the network services. Their work included refactoring the Ketama ring building process, ensuring consistent usage of doc.rs links, and modifying HTTP/1.1 response header handling. They also worked on TLS client configurations, including a fix for `verify_result()` in SSL client and added support for debugging TLS traffic decryption through SSLKEYLOG. They also introduced support for h2c and provided an example for load balancing based on request URIs.
acoffman/narwhal
Sep 2009 - May 2010
Contributions:240 commits in 7 months
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