Randall Hunt
Chief Technology Officer at SimpliMatch
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolRandall Hunt is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO at Caylent with 15 years of experience accelerating cloud-native adoption and building developer-facing products. He has a rare blend of hands-on coding (Python, C++, and practical JavaScript) and executive strategy shaped by senior roles at Facebook AI, SpaceX, AWS, MongoDB, and NASA. Known for listening to customers, building demos, and mentoring engineers, he translates complex distributed systems and AI concepts into production-ready solutions. Randall also serves on boards and advises startups (e.g., SimpliMatch) and nonprofit developer programs like hackNY, bringing product-focused cloud strategy to early-stage companies. His background includes CI and developer relations leadership, making him equally fluent in developer experience, observability, and large-scale deployment pipelines. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs technical depth with a habit of communicating through demos and blog posts, often surfacing practical patterns others miss.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma Computer Science, Highschool Diploma Computer Science at Punahou Academy (College Prep)Western Carolina University
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
12,332reputation
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65answers
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
remote-management10
datasets10
flask-application10
hyperparameter-optimization10
minification10
neural-network10
allocation10
mongodb10
amazon10
sha10
evolutionary10
spectrogram10
python10
cost-optimization10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ranman/gitshots-server
Apr 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:125 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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ranman/dotfiles
Mar 2012 - Jan 2022
Contributions:86 commits, 5 pushes in 9 years 11 months
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