Brandon Hawkinson
Senior Software Engineer at Spotlight
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Hawkinson is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-throughput, event-driven systems across Aerospace and FinTech. He specializes in Go, Python, and TypeScript and has led architecture and refactor efforts to improve developer velocity and service performance at fast-moving startups like Orum.io and Covax Data. Brandon has a proven track record shipping payments integrations (ACH, RTP, FedNow, Wires) and scaling Kafka-based ingestion pipelines capable of handling ~100k events per minute. He pairs hands-on backend engineering with DevOps and cloud infrastructure expertise (Terraform, Vault, Consul) and a founder’s mindset, having co-founded startups and driven product/market fit work. Notably, he reduced platform operating costs dramatically as a Fractional Head of Engineering and has a knack for spotting integration risks early and implementing pragmatic safeguards. Based in Seattle, he blends entrepreneurial curiosity with a strong history of delivering reliable, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School General Education, High School General Education at Troy High SchoolBachelor’s in Science Computer Science, Bachelor’s in Science Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton
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Github Skills (46)
game-engine10
open-source10
game-development10
titan9
godot9
golang9
go8
vault8
calypso8
secrets8
interpreter8
programming-language8
text-editor8
hashicorp-vault7
security7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hawkinsonb/rockpaperscissors-cnn
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:52 commits, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 4 months
Hawkinsonb/IOTA-SeedGen
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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