Hunter Mellema
Senior Software Engineer at Cloudflare
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHunter Mellema is a Senior Software Engineer based in Denver with eight years of experience building developer tooling and cloud services across startups and major platforms. He has moved from hands-on aerospace and navigation systems—designing orbital tools and leading a student satellite project—to shipping production services at AWS and developer-facing platforms at Cloudflare. His background uniquely blends astrodynamics and complex distributed systems, evidenced by features like customer-provided ephemeris and global control plane launches for AWS Ground Station. Hunter is an open-source contributor and former "rocket scientist" who writes in Python, Go, and C++, and mentors engineers while driving product-focused launches. He excels at translating mission-critical aerospace requirements into reliable cloud-native software and developer tools that scale.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of WashingtonMaster's degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Master's degree Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (9)
orbit7
astrodynamics5
orbital-mechanics5
masters4
flask2
web-application2
cookiecutter2
python2
python-web1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rconnorjohnstone/WheresMySat
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year
mellemahp/ridc_integrators
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Integrators for Masters thesis
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
integratorsmastersmasters-thesisthesis
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