Summary
Robert Hawkins is a Full Stack Developer and technical lead with 12 years of experience building user-facing products and backend systems, now focused on ecommerce at Fisher Auto Parts. He founded and fully engineered Reveddit, a privacy- and free-speech-focused tool that grew to hundreds of thousands of monthly users and spawned browser extensions and data-driven moderator-history views built with React, Python, Flask, PostgreSQL and Cloudflare Workers. Comfortable across the stack, he brings machine learning training from Columbia Engineering and prior NLP experience at FactSet to design pragmatic data pipelines and performant UIs. He’s also worked as a globe-trotting freelance developer delivering semantic search and nonprofit platforms, combining startup grit with production-grade engineering and a track record of translating complex data into actionable features.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Dickinson College
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Machine Learning at Columbia Engineering