Bryan Hitchcock
Senior Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Hitchcock is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building ultra-low-latency, highly available distributed storage and database systems at scale. Now a tech lead at Google, he has driven microsecond-latency work across Colossus and Persistent Disk, optimizing data placement, throttling, and IO prioritization for systems serving billions of operations per second. He brings deep C++ expertise and a pragmatist’s eye for reducing contention and tail latency, having delivered multi-10x p99 improvements in past roles. An active contributor to Rust’s widely used parking_lot synchronization library, he also enjoys compilers and teaching core CS concepts, reflecting a blend of systems-level rigor and strong engineering pedagogy. Based in New York, he pairs production-hardened infrastructure experience with a curiosity for language and tooling design.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.8 / 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.8 / 4.0 at Michigan State University
Github Skills (12)
synchronized10
rust10
primitive10
synchronize10
concurrency10
synchronization10
testing9
multithreading9
algorithms8
algorithm8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Amanieu/parking_lot
May 2022 - May 2022
Compact and efficient synchronization primitives for Rust. Also provides an API for creating custom synchronization primitives.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the `parking_lot` repository by implementing and refining synchronization primitives in Rust. Their work involved adding convenience methods to the `Condvar` struct, specifically the `wait_while` functions, and making subsequent adjustments. These changes included handling potential timeouts and correcting related issues. The user also refactored and streamlined the implementation, as demonstrated by the removal of a struct related to the `wait_while` method.
rust
bryanhitc/advent-of-code-2021
Dec 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 40 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 4 months
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