Frank Hardisty
SDE at Amazon Kuiper via Aditi Consulting
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Hardisty is a seasoned software engineer and former academic with 12 years building scalable distributed systems, now designing globally available cloud architectures at Amazon Kuiper. He blends hands-on development in Java/Scala and cloud (AWS) with leadership as a technical project manager and mentor who has guided 27 master's students and evangelized engineering best practices. His background spans geo-data pipelines, real-time computation (Storm/Spark), and full-stack service development across companies like Expedia, Replica, and CommerceHub. With a PhD in Geography and 30+ scientific publications, he brings a research-driven curiosity to production engineering, favoring methodical adoption of software development best practices. Based in Seattle, he’s especially interested in scalable systems and machine learning—effectively translating academic insight into reliable, operational software.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Geography, Ph.D. Geography at Penn State University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
133reputation
12kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (8)
jython6
refactoring6
python6
numpy6
java6
gradle1
dropwizard1
gradle-plugin1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
geovista/geoviz-toolkit
Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:84 commits in 8 months
hardisty/canvas
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:20 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
canvasjavascripthtml5html5-canvasplaying
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