Holden Hinkle
Senior Full Stack Engineer, Lead Engineer, Oddball Inc.
South Burlington, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolHolden Hinkle is a Senior Full Stack Engineer and lead at Oddball with 11 years of experience building scalable web platforms using Ruby on Rails, Node, React, PostgreSQL, and Docker. He co-founded Backpack, a multi-instance Backend-as-a-Service, where he designed the real-time WebSocket system, dynamic routing and model generation, and an SDK to streamline frontend developer workflows. Prior to that he built and scaled Encore Music Lesson into a multi-million dollar marketplace, combining product leadership with hands-on engineering. Holden blends strong backend architecture skills with pragmatic front-end experience (Next.js, React, Flutter) and a knack for automating complex infrastructure. Based in Vermont, he brings an entrepreneur’s mindset to team leadership and technical decision-making, often favoring elegant, incremental solutions to thorny system design problems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Music Performance, General, Music Performance, General at Berklee College of MusicBachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology, Minor: Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology, Minor: Computer Science at Hunter CollegeLaunch School
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Github Skills (90)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
holdenhinkle/goshop
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:32 PRs, 308 pushes, 24 branches in 6 months
holdenhinkle/mazecraze
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
MazeCraze is a single and multi-line puzzle game similar to the popular iOS games Fill and Flow Free. Built with Ruby, Sinatra, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap.
Contributions:327 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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