Skyler Hawthorne
Engineering Technical Lead at Cisco Talos Intelligence Group
City of Troy, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSkyler Hawthorne is an Engineering Technical Lead with 12 years of experience building distributed, high-throughput systems and tooling, currently leading engineering efforts at Cisco Talos. Grounded in a deep appreciation for algorithms and systems programming, he has strong expertise in Java backend development, stream processing, and operational tooling (Kafka, HBase, ZooKeeper, Docker). He spent much of his career at OpenDNS designing and scaling a distributed graph database representing internet security state and authored integration and feed-management tooling in Python. An active contributor to open-source projects, he has improved game navigation tooling and enhanced a popular Twitter archive parser to better handle media and reply metadata. Based in Troy, NY, he pairs systems-level thinking (graph theory, optimization, parallelization) with hands-on delivery and a habit of improving developer experience and test infrastructure. Peers describe him as a technically curious leader who turns complex distributed problems into stable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Student of the Year 2007-2008, Computer Maintenance & Repair, Student of the Year 2007-2008, Computer Maintenance & Repair at Eden Area ROPAssociate of Science (AS), Computer Science, Associate of Science (AS), Computer Science at College of the CanyonsSan José State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Ohlone CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Chabot College
English
Github Skills (13)
file-handling10
pathfinding10
navigationbar10
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
data-parsing10
python10
navigationview10
navigation-drawer10
markdown-it9
markdown9
regular-expression8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
recastnavigation/recastnavigation
Mar 2014 - Jan 2017
Industry-standard navigation-mesh toolset for games
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Skyler primarily contributed to the RecastNavigation project by addressing various code issues and improving the codebase. They fixed a window aspect ratio issue in the demo, updated external library versions, and removed an unused variable. Further contributions included adding toggles for heightfield filtering options and ensuring the correct use of read lengths, along with a fix for an issue related to a font loading.
meshgame-aigamescrowd-simulationnavmesh
timhutton/twitter-archive-parser
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Skyler primarily contributed to the functionality of the Twitter archive parser, focusing on enhancing how it processes and presents tweet data. Their work involved modifying the code to handle media attachments, including images and videos, and improving the formatting of the generated output, adding quote prefixes, and modifying the tweet header to include the twitter URL. The user also implemented changes to handle replies, including creating a header with the relevant user information. These changes aimed to improve the parser's output and making it more user-friendly.
python-codepythonarchivetwitter-archivetwitter-api
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