Dirk Hortensius
Senior Staff Engineer at ToasterCat Studios
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDirk Hortensius is a design-oriented Senior Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack, production-grade web systems and developer-facing services across AWS and Amazon. He blends creative computing and operational excellence—moving from serverless game-tech product design at AWS to cost-conscious static site architectures and launch ops at his own ToasterCat Studios. Dirk pairs hands-on implementation (HTML5, WordPress hosting, GA4, S3, CI/ops) with product insight, having driven integrations that lifted sales and frequently acted as a developer advocate at industry events. Based in Seattle, he keeps a pragmatic maker’s practice—running a 3D printer farm for rapid prototyping—so his solutions balance user experience, monetization, and minimal operational overhead.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Virginia TechWilliam G. Enloe HighGithub contributions (5)
ToasterCat/oas-home-site
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:21 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
Dirker27/UnityLaboratory
Sep 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
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