Brian H
Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Hardock is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native and edge systems, now based in Boulder and working at Akamai after roles at Fermyon and Microsoft. He brings hands-on expertise in backend engineering and serverless/WebAssembly runtimes, contributing notable integrations to the Spin open-source framework—adding Wagi and Redis support, TLS, and Rust SDK configuration plumbing. His background spans startups and large tech organizations, with early work in embedded/cloud networking and academic research in applied mathematics that underpins a pragmatic, model-driven approach to problem solving. Colleagues rely on him for shipping robust infrastructure features and bridging low-level systems work with developer-facing tooling.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (8)
serverless10
spin10
rust10
webassembly10
redis10
configuration-management9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
spinframework/spin
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Spin is the open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:668 reviews, 51 commits, 218 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the implementation of core features within the Spin framework, focusing on the Wagi and Redis integrations. Their work included adding a custom entrypoint for the Wagi executor, adding TLS support, and implementing the outbound Redis interface, enabling functionalities like publishing, getting, and setting values. The user also enhanced the Spin SDK for Rust by integrating the spin-config interface, allowing for configuration management within components.
serverless-applicationswebassemblyspinserverless
spinframework/spin-rust-sdk
Feb 2024 - Jul 2026
Spin SDK for Rust
Contributions:40 reviews, 40 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 4 months
rust
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