Emmett Hitz
Senior Engineer at MARA
Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmmett Hitz is a Senior Engineer with 11 years of experience building control systems and cloud-native infrastructure, currently based in Framingham, MA. He has driven backend reliability and code quality across storage and orchestration projects, notably contributing to NetApp's Trident storage orchestrator by improving linting, formatting, and SAN driver tuning. His career spans roles at NetApp, Navier, MARA, Kitware, and Apprenda, blending hands-on systems engineering with modern deployment practices. Emmett pairs pragmatic engineering with a keen eye for maintainable code and tooling that prevents regressions at scale. Outside of work he balances technical focus with athletic and performance hobbies—skating, surfing, juggling, and weightlifting—which inform a disciplined, creative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
German, French, English
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Github Skills (8)
go10
storage8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
docker6
google-chrome-extension6
javascript6
dockers6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
NetApp/trident
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Storage orchestrator for containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Emmett primarily focused on improving code quality, addressing errcheck failures, and fixing hooks. Their contributions involved implementing golangci-lint, fixing code formatting, and ensuring code adheres to the project's style guidelines. They made changes to several files across the repository, including core logic and the CLI, indicating involvement in various backend areas. In addition, they tuned the san driver, demonstrating some contributions to the storage layer.
containersnetapp-publicorchestratorazure-blob-storagedocker
based64god/pycraft
Apr 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
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