Reuben Hawkins
Software Engineer at Oracle
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolReuben Hawkins is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performance, secure, multi-threaded C/C++ systems across Linux and cross-platform environments. He has delivered production-grade networking and encryption solutions at scale for AWS and Oracle, and led migrations and security retrofits—including moving legacy systems to git, systemd, and OpenSSH integrations with upstream patches. His work spans low-level sockets, OpenSSL/cryptography, build automation, and performance tuning, with a practical eye for code quality (evidenced by compiler-warning fixes in the widely used mozjpeg project). Based in Seattle, he combines deep systems expertise with hands-on tooling and test infrastructure skills, and has a track record of improving security posture through least-privilege execution and penetration testing.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Programming, Computer Science, Programming at Louisiana State University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
c1710
c1110
warnings10
compiler-errors10
image-optimization10
build-system9
web-performance8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/mozjpeg
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Improved JPEG encoder.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Focus on Code Quality/Compiler)
Software Engineer (Focus on Code Quality/Compiler)Contributions:10 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Reuben primarily focused on improving code quality and addressing compiler warnings within the `mozjpeg` repository. Their commits involve fixing warnings by removing unused variables, initializing variables, and modifying code to ensure correct return values. They also contributed by enabling silent build rules to make warnings more noticeable and adjusted parameters related to image processing.
image-optimizationimprovedcodecgifencoder
radvd-project/radvd-project.github.io
Jan 2011 - Jan 2021
radvd website | Official repository: https://github.com/radvd-project/radvd-project.github.io
Contributions:82 commits, 19 pushes in 10 years 1 month
ipv6ipv6-addressipv6-networkipv6-supportradvd
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