Sasha Hilton
Software Developer at Stealth Startup
London, England, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolSasha Hilton is a London-based software developer with 12 years of experience building backend systems and shaping product architecture. Currently at a stealth startup after serving as Software Architect at Hilton Macarons, Sasha blends pragmatic engineering with strategic design to deliver reliable services. He contributes to notable open-source projects like librespot, adding discovery controls, feature flags, and thoughtful refactors to improve maintainability in a widely used Spotify client library. Trained in economics at Università Bocconi, Sasha brings a data-informed mindset to technical decisions and product trade-offs. Comfortable across code and architecture, he favors incremental improvements that unlock long-term stability and developer velocity. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who surfaces small but impactful enhancements that ripple through complex systems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Winchester CollegeBachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Università Bocconi
Github Skills (7)
connect10
rust10
spotify10
pot9
popt9
networking8
multithreading8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
librespot-org/librespot
Jan 2018 - Nov 2025
Open Source Spotify client library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 15 reviews, 184 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sasha primarily focused on adding and modifying features related to the Spotify client library. They introduced a "zeroconf-port" option, enabling more control over the internal server advertised via zeroconf. Furthermore, the user made syntax improvements and added a feature flag for DNS-SD support within the discovery module. They also contributed to refactoring code, particularly in the spirc module for handling shuffle functionality.
spotifylibrespotrustspotify-connect
librespot-org/spotify-connect-resources
Mar 2015 - Jul 2019
A repository to hold any data/stuff related to reversing the Spotify Connect protocol. Mostly just data dumps at the moment, but if you have something to add to it, be it an implementation, information or just another data dump, make a PR and I will add it asap.
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 29 pushes in 4 years 5 months
data-dumpspotify
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