Drew Hite
Senior Software Engineer at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Hite is a Senior Software Engineer in Boston with over a decade of experience building scalable web and cloud systems, currently enabling scientists at the Broad Institute to leverage Google Cloud with Java, Scala, and React. He combines deep backend expertise—Java, Spring, concurrency, performance tuning—with modern front-end and cloud skills in TypeScript, React, AWS/GCP, and Python, and a practical eye for site reliability and developer productivity. Drew is motivated by solving tricky bugs and mentoring teammates, writing code with future maintainers in mind and enjoying the continual learning software work offers. His background spans product-driven roles at TripAdvisor and HubSpot to impactful volunteer engineering for civic and social-good projects, showing he applies engineering skill to both commercial scale and community impact. A geologist-turned-computer-scientist, he brings curiosity and persistence to complex data and infrastructure problems, often getting absorbed in investigations until a robust solution is found.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Computer Science, Certificate, Computer Science at Tufts UniversityBA, Geology, BA, Geology at Pomona College
Github Skills (43)
terra10
genetic9
react8
user-interface8
identity-provider8
idp8
terraform8
identity8
meilisearch7
security7
workbench6
scim6
identity-management6
python6
fastapi6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
FoodIsLifeBGP/banana-rn
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:11 reviews, 81 commits, 81 PRs in 4 months
broadinstitute/data-registry-api
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 review, 28 PRs, 75 pushes in 9 months
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