Robert Hahn
Team Lead - Research Engineering Group D1 - Senior Software Engineer at Optiver
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Hahn is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building low-level platforms and cross-language systems for high-impact projects at Google, Amazon Kuiper, and Optiver. He has led teams from prototype to production, architecting RTOS/bare-metal stacks, HAL/OSAL designs, and a Rust safety layer while driving Kuiper’s adoption of Rust and defining vehicle-wide CAN protocols. At Google he led the Wi‑Fi stack for Fuchsia, rethinking WLAN architecture and developing an IEEE 802.11-compliant MLME plus a hardware simulator, and his early work includes Android TV Leanback contributions visible in AOSP mirrors. Based in Seattle, he blends hands-on full-stack embedded development with people leadership and a track record of delivering both software and hardware-integrated products for multi-billion dollar initiatives. Unusually for someone at this level, he remains an active contributor to low-level demos and UI refinements, showing a rare mix of system-level rigor and product-focused polish.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
Russian, French, English, German
Github Skills (10)
javas10
uid10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
android10
leanback10
java10
ui-design9
xml9
graphical-user-interface8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_development
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert implemented various examples for the Leanback Showcase app, including Card, DetailView, GridView, Music, and Video examples. They addressed animation artifacts and other minor UI customization issues within these examples. Furthermore, they refactored the code and made changes to the MediaPlayerGlue and associated classes.
aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_support
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on enhancing the Android TV Leanback Showcase application. Their contributions included implementing various UI examples for cards, details, grids, and media playback, as well as improving the styling and layout of these components. They also fixed focus-related bugs within the new ImageCardView and refactored the code for improved structure and maintainability. These changes resulted in a more refined and functional showcase app.
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