Stuart Hinson
Principal Engineer at Croft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Hinson is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with 13 years of experience building and leading engineering teams that deliver reliable data-driven systems. He most recently led the Data Exchange team at DailyPay, ensuring timely, production-grade delivery of the information powering a consumer finance product, and now serves as Principal Engineer at Croft. Stuart combines hands-on backend work in Rust and Lisp-inspired languages with leadership across startups and healthcare tech—his open-source contributions include meaningful improvements to the popular sqlx Rust toolkit and core features in language projects like Pixie and Artichoke. He has a track record of shipping production systems that span medical device tooling, search and recommendation engines, and high-volume analytics platforms. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research, data science, and engineering while keeping systems observable and resilient. Off the beaten path, his GitHub bio hints at a playful persistence—“Bedtime is never!”—that matches a history of deep, late-stage problem-solving.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (27)
postgresql10
back-end-development10
testing10
ruby10
rust-crates10
language-design10
crate10
sql10
error-handling10
functional-programming10
rust10
backend10
lisp10
async9
data-structure9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pixie-lang/pixie
Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
A small, fast, native lisp with "magical" powers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 14 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Stuart contributed to the core logic of the Pixie language. They implemented features related to variadic functions, improved the behavior of `get-in`, and resolved merge conflicts within the testing suite. They also added string representations for ranges and implemented the `into` and `cycle` functions. Furthermore, they worked on pre and post-condition assertions within functions.
lisp
artichoke/artichoke
Oct 2019 - Sep 2021
💎 Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 19 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily contributed to the backend of the Artichoke project, focusing on core functionality and bug fixes. Their work includes adding features like `unchecked_funcall`, integrating backend name into `RUBY_VERSION`, and addressing issues related to dead values within the system. The user also implemented error handling improvements and addressed clippy feedback to improve code quality and maintainability.
rubyrustartichokeprogramming-languagerust-application
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