Brian Hawkins
Staff Software Engineer at Proofpoint
Santaquin, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Hawkins is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance systems in C, C++ and Java across Windows, macOS, and Linux. He has deep expertise in time-series databases and backend engineering, having been a core contributor to KairosDB and integrated its Java components with Cassandra for scalable storage and query processing. Based in Santaquin, Utah, he has driven production-critical work at Proofpoint and Datastax, including starting KairosDB while developing governance applications. Known for pragmatic, systems-level problem solving, he blends low-level language skills with distributed systems design to make complex services run reliably at scale. He also brings long-term perspective from earlier roles in backup software, SaaS, teaching, and network operations, which informs his practical approach to tooling and operational robustness. Colleagues rely on him to translate thorny performance and serialization issues into maintainable, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Weber State UniversityMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (8)
timeseries-database10
javas10
back-end-development10
cassandra10
java10
data-storage9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kairosdb/kairosdb
Mar 2013 - Jan 2023
Fast scalable time series database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 611 commits, 134 PRs in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the core functionality of the KairosDB, a time series database, by implementing features related to query processing and data storage. They focused on the back-end components, specifically, addressing issues with aggregators, group-by operations, and the serialization of data. Additionally, they worked on integrating the Java-based code with Cassandra, a backend system and also handled the writing of the service key
scalabletime-series-databaseseries-databasetimeseries-databasedatabase
brianhks/portmap
Oct 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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