Hunter Herman
Senior Software Engineer at Roblox
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHunter Herman is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend web services and distributed systems, currently managing Roblox’s on-prem server fleet from the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously at Palantir he tackled high-scale streaming, search (Elasticsearch), and RAG-powered data exploration, alternating between IC and tech lead roles. He’s a Go enthusiast who enjoys turning operational complexity into reliable, testable infrastructure. Motivated by measurable impact and outcomes, Hunter blends hands-on coding with systems-level thinking to optimize fleet reliability and observability. His early internships and liberal arts education suggest a pragmatic, curious engineer who values both craftsmanship and real-world product impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Macalester CollegeStuyvesant High School
Malay, Chinese, Indonesian, English
Github Skills (181)
programming-language10
interpreter10
emotes10
golang10
compiler10
busybox10
goplus10
go10
odin10
initramfs10
linux9
userland9
twitch9
embedded9
smile9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hherman1/CatanClient
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 215 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
hherman1/LeaveAMessage
May 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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