Ethan Hugg
Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Hugg is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with 14 years of documented experience and a long engineering career stretching back to the late 1980s. He has driven backend and systems work at Cisco since 2005 after senior engineering and management roles at companies including AgileDelta, DataConcert, InfoSpace, and Active Voice. Ethan contributes to prominent open-source projects like Cisco's openh264, where he implemented thread library interfaces and improved build and logging infrastructure—signals of deep C/C++ and concurrency expertise. He pairs a BS in Math/CS from the University of Washington with hands-on skills in threading, mutexes, and build systems, often improving legacy codebases for modern logging and maintainability. Known for quietly modernizing core media and infrastructure components, he brings institutional knowledge and pragmatic engineering to complex, long-lived systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Math/CS, BS, Math/CS at University of Washington
Github Skills (11)
c-language10
threaded10
cprogramming-language10
thread10
hyper-threading10
multithreading10
ws-api9
winapi9
wp-api9
makefile9
build-system9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cisco/openh264
Dec 2013 - Jul 2015
Open Source H.264 Codec
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:367 commits, 36 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily focused on the development of thread-related functionalities within the codebase. They introduced thread library interfaces, including mutexes, events, and thread creation/management functions. Additionally, they modified existing code to update makefiles for new logging changes and prettified C++ code, demonstrating an understanding of the project's build process.
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