Christiaan Hazlett
Lead Software Engineer at McMaster-Carr
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristiaan Hazlett is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance data pipelines, APIs, and visualization tools for ADAS and automotive programs. He helped launch in-house teams at Ford focused on AI/ML, environment simulation, and cloud platform work that supported features like BlueCruise, Pro-Trailer Hitch Assist, the Mustang Mach‑E, and the F‑150 Lightning. Christiaan specializes in fast, efficient data streaming and visualization APIs, having architected ADAS data streaming/search/tagging services, optimized batch ETL to shrink ingestion from days to minutes, and built React front ends for event triage. He combines systems-level C++ and multithreaded graphics work with cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, BigQuery, Airflow) and a teaching background that produced an award-winning auto-grader and a widely used thread-safe graphics library. Now based in Chicago, he brings a blend of hands-on engineering, platform thinking, and a proven track record of turning prototype workflows into production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Computer Science at Calvin University
Github Skills (11)
thread9
opengl7
linux7
css4
javascript3
nodejs3
web-development2
printing2
android-phone1
nextjs1
android1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nsbender/336Project
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:32 commits, 20 PRs, 27 pushes in 17 days
cssjavascriptcss3nodejshtml5
14coruma/AI
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:14 PRs, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
artificial-intelligencemachine-learning
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