Harold Hotelling
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarold Hotelling is a seasoned Staff Software Engineer based in Berkeley with 15 years building robust backend systems, databases, and language-oriented tooling. He has driven payments, content curation, and relevance infrastructure at LinkedIn—leading technical efforts for Payments, Elevate, Sales Navigator, and earlier referrals work—after a decade designing high-throughput systems at IBM and HighWire. His strengths are system architecture, database internals, functional languages and pragmatic engineering: notable past work includes an async Java HTTP client using NIO selectors and an XML/HTTP service that powered thousands of journal pages. Comfortable moving between deep systems design and product-focused delivery, he combines academic training from Michigan and Stanford with a knack for turning legacy systems into scalable, reliable platforms.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of MichiganComputer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (37)
discovery10
restful-api9
asynchronous9
json9
scala9
swagger9
rest9
api9
restful9
rest-api9
scalable9
jax-rs9
architectures8
azerothcore8
wai7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
haroldl/things
Jan 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 4 months
haroldl/try_dust
Dec 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches, 2 comments in 5 years 2 months
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