Garrett Hughes
Senior Engineering Manager at Napster
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrett Hughes is a Senior Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building crypto and data infrastructure, currently leading LLM, Activate, and Conversion teams at Dune while remaining hands-on with code. He co-founded Mint Songs (acquired by Napster), scaled engineering teams from two to dozens across multiple startups, and has deep expertise in Solidity, TypeScript, Node, and modern frontend stacks. Garrett combines product-minded engineering with operational rigor—having cut AWS costs by 70% at RabbitHole and led major monorepo-to-microrepo migrations and real-time indexer builds. He advises web3 and music ventures on strategy and technical execution, and brings a founder’s perspective to hiring, fundraising, and acquisitions. Based in Richmond, VA, he pairs entrepreneurial grit and photography-rooted creativity with a track record of shipping production systems that bridge martech, crypto, and growth engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at San Diego State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Information Analysis, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Analysis at James Madison University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (117)
yield10
graphql10
react10
javascript9
gatsby9
compiler9
localized9
webpack9
blockchain9
nft9
frontend9
tel9
fastest9
distribute8
chain8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
GarrettJMU/RoadWarrior
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
code-423n4/2023-01-rabbithole
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 6 days
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