Erik Hons
Software Engineer Core Platform
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Hons is a software engineer and strategic technology leader with 10+ years building low-level and distributed systems, currently contributing to Core OS platform engineering at Apple from Austin. He has a deep hardware-to-software background—drivers, embedded systems, FPGA/VHDL, and time-sensitive networking—paired with a record of creating multi-year roadmaps and driving cross-team execution at National Instruments. Erik invented and piloted service-based driver architectures, implemented 100Gb streaming proofs-of-concept across PCIe and Ethernet, and modernized build pipelines to accelerate delivery. He blends hands-on C/C++ and Python development with systems thinking, balancing immediate product needs against long-term architectural transitions. Collected academic training in digital communications and computer science from Waterloo underpins his focus on network-synchronized I/O and control platforms. Not obvious from the title: he repeatedly turns research-grade ideas into production-ready frameworks that align R&D investment with business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MASc, Digital Communications, MASc, Digital Communications at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (27)
cpp-library10
dbus10
cpp10
conan9
database-access9
package-management9
odbc9
package-manager9
connection-pool8
kernel8
linux-kernel8
daemon8
realtime7
linux7
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ni/dbus-cxx
Feb 2024 - Jan 2025
DBus-cxx provides an object-oriented interface to DBus
Contributions:1 PR, 66 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
ni/conan-center-index
May 2024 - Jan 2025
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Contributions:31 pushes, 5 branches, 2 tags in 7 months
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