Hunter Wittenborn
CEO & Founder at Riff Labs
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolHunter Wittenborn is a software engineer and founder based in Huntsville, Alabama, with five years of experience building reliable, scalable systems and leading teams as CEO of Riff Labs. He is an advocate for Rust’s performance and safety, while bringing practical fluency in Go, Python, and Bash to full lifecycle development and DevOps automation. His work spans server administration, CI/CD, and Git-based workflows, and he contributes to open-source projects—improving UX and packaging robustness for a cross-cloud file sync client. Hunter blends hands-on engineering at companies like Scale AI and SAIC with entrepreneurial product leadership, and he has a knack for debugging build/linker issues that others often overlook.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Github Skills (18)
debug10
linux10
gtk10
front-end-development10
appimage10
rclone9
cloud-storage8
drive7
webdav7
dropbox7
gdrive7
automations6
automation6
hmac6
automation-testing6
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
hwittenborn/celeste
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
GUI file synchronization client that can sync with any cloud provider
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 17 reviews, 59 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Hunter primarily focused on improving the user experience and fixing bugs in the GUI file synchronization client. Their contributions included fixing linker issues and missing dependencies in the AppImage packaging, which involved adjusting the build process and library paths. They also removed the AppImage packaging due to persistent issues. Additionally, the user addressed UI/UX issues, such as missing icons, incorrect text alignment, and problems with the main window and about page.
cloud-storagedropboxgoogle-drivegtk4libadwaita
makedeb/mprweb
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Hosting platform for the makedeb Package Repository (MPR)
Contributions:17 reviews, 190 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 1 month
hostingself-hostingmprjdownloaderpackage-repository
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