David Hawthorne
Software Engineer at Twitch
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hawthorne is a seasoned backend software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, scalable services across startups and large companies, currently at Twitch working on Chat integrations for game developers. His background spans systems-level design, cloud services, and ops—having led engineering and DevOps teams at Pertino, implemented long-running dynamic DNS for SD‑WAN at Cradlepoint, and maintained GSLB and metrics pipelines at XDN. He excels at reducing technical debt, improving observability, and shipping robust integrations (SAML/Okta, REST/Thrift APIs) in production environments. Comfortable in Java, C++, and a variety of data stores and monitoring stacks, he brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on coding, architectural thinking, and operational ownership. Based in Austin, he combines enterprise-grade engineering discipline with startup agility and a track record of systems that have run reliably for years.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Dual major: Accounting and Management, BS, Dual major: Accounting and Management at University of Saint Mary
Github Skills (16)
desktop-application8
windows6
linux6
javascript6
angular6
react6
go5
golang5
macos5
svelte5
backend4
java3
statsd2
bundle2
powerdns2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dhawth/jedi
Nov 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
javabackendjava-backendpowerdns
dhawth/java_statsd
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
A Java-based statsd server and client implementation
Contributions:6 pushes, 7 tags in 10 months
javastatsd
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