Rob Hruska
Principal Engineer at Hudl
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolRob Hruska is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, resilient systems and leading teams at Hudl from monolith migrations to a 300TB data platform. He blends hands-on engineering—authoring open-source tooling like Mjolnir and contributing to notable .NET projects such as EasyNetQ and SmartThreadPool—with strategic leadership, prototyping high-ROI solutions and guiding platform re-architecture onto Docker and .NET Core. Rob has executed large zero-downtime data migrations at scale and driven microservices, resilience, and data-quality initiatives that measurably improved system reliability. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, he pairs deep backend and distributed-systems expertise with a practical focus on measurable outcomes and developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Waverly High SchoolB.S. Computer Science Physics Japanese, B.S. Computer Science Physics Japanese at Nebraska Wesleyan University
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Github Skills (17)
messaging10
multithreading10
net10
thread-pool10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
queuing10
rabbitmq10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
task-queue10
csharp10
queue10
concurrency10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amibar/SmartThreadPool
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
A .NET Thread Pool fully implemented in C# with many features
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of the `SmartThreadPool` library, focusing on features related to queue management. Their work involved adding functionality for bounded work queues, including a `MaxQueueLength` configuration option to control queue size and prevent excessive queuing. They also addressed issues with queue length calculations and refactored code to use more efficient methods for tracking work item counts, resulting in performance improvements and more reliable queue behavior. Several test cases were created to ensure the correct functioning of the new features.
csharpdotnetthread-pool
EasyNetQ/EasyNetQ
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
An easy to use .NET API for RabbitMQ
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Rob's contributions center on enhancing the `Receive` functionality within the EasyNetQ library. They've added new overloads to the `Receive` methods, providing configuration options for consumers and ensuring correct preconditions. Additionally, the user has implemented documentation for the new `Receive` method overloads in the interface and bus implementations, and updated the version number.
dotnetrabbitmqmessagingdotnet-core
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