Summary
Ashley Horton is a pragmatic senior software engineer with a decade of experience building infrastructure, backend systems, and cutting-edge R&D tools from the Greater Phoenix Area. Currently leading "Engineering The Research," Ashley blends hands-on systems work with research-oriented productization, having previously shaped infrastructure at Klaviyo and migrated large C# codebases to Rust at dub. Comfortable across stacks and languages, they have a track record of turning messy legacy backends into maintainable, performant systems and shipping pragmatic infra improvements at scale. Colleagues describe them with playful technical flair—“evil witch of the arcane talents”—which hints at a knack for creative problem solving and unconventional tooling. With a BS in Computer Science and a history of titles that span Unity game work to infrastructure leadership, Ashley brings both versatility and a taste for deeply technical, experimental projects.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Southern New Hampshire University
English, Japanese