William Ahern
Founder at Hitzke Labs (KeyMux)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Ahern is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 20 years of experience building high-performance streaming, cloud-native, and security-focused systems from San Francisco. He founded Hitzke Labs (KeyMux), which bridges secure key enclaves with classic open-source tooling, and previously built the low-latency transcoding stack at Xera/RemoTV that enabled per-client audio transforms with minimal CPU overhead. His enterprise background includes principal and senior engineering roles at Splunk, Barracuda, and Oath where he drove Kubernetes/cloud infrastructure and hardened CI/CD platforms. An active open-source contributor, he has deep cross-platform GUI and bindings experience (notably enhancing macOS features and Lua/Node.js integrations in the yue project). With a JD in law alongside extensive technical leadership, he brings a rare blend of product-minded engineering, security awareness, and systems-level pragmatism.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The George Washington UniversityUniversity of West FloridaJD, Law, JD, Law at George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
Github Skills (8)
lua10
macos10
nodejs10
cross-platform10
front-end-development10
multiplatform10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yue/yue
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:William primarily worked on enhancing the cross-platform GUI library. Their contributions include implementing macOS-specific features such as scroll elasticity and disclosure button support. They also addressed various bugs related to file dialogs and notification center functionality, while improving the bindings for Lua and Node.js. The user's work demonstrates a strong understanding of GUI frameworks and platform-specific implementations.
windowslinuxguicross-platformcross-platform-gui
Radelon/libnostd
Nov 2006 - Feb 2010
Contributions:86 commits in 3 years 4 months
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