Summary
Todd Hodes is a Principal Architect and Director of Applications Software Engineering with two decades of hands-on experience building startups into acquisition-ready businesses and scaling product-focused engineering teams. He blends deep academic rigor (UC Berkeley PhD) with pragmatic full-stack and mobile expertise, particularly in functional reactive Android development and decentralized multimedia systems. At Eluvio he architects a complex Content Fabric combining Go backends, React frontends, WASM edge processing, and blockchain contracts, while earlier roles spanned founding-era ops through director-level mobile engineering at LocationLabs/AVG. Comfortable in R&D, product, or infrastructure, he prefers close collaboration with founders and shipping robust, user-focused systems. Notably, his career traces early web and mobile innovations—from voice navigation and feature-phone portals to modern ML watermarking and Rust/C++ media pipelines—revealing a pattern of solving hard engineering problems across shifting platforms.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
B.S. Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science & Applied Mathematics at University of Virginia