Software Engineer,
May, 2019 - Present
Tech lead of the platform team, enabling entrepaenuers to access brex via API.
Adam Hitchcock
Staff Engineer
Background
About
About
I like to solve hard problems, speak at c onferences, and run dance events in my spare time. I would like to put my skills in Python, architecture, and platform development to good use while learning more about machine learning.
I recently Marie Kondo'd my position at Reddit to seek a job that will give me more joy. I'm looking for a position that has opportunities for creativity, collaboration, and leadership.
Work Experience
Work Experience
Staff Engineer,
Apr, 2018 - May, 20191 year 1 month
Worked on the anti-evil team to help support law enforcement requests and DMCA compliance.
Designed and implemented a legal export pipeline to dynamically discover data when servicing subpoenas, court orders, and GDRP requests. Built using Airflow on Kubernetes, BigQuery, and GCS.
Built a realtime content classification pipeline to identify toxic content and flag it for review.
Mentored multiple junior engineers in career growth and technical guidance.
Won several hackathon awards including CTO's choice and People's choice.
Tech Lead,
Jan, 2011 - Apr, 20187 years 3 months
As the technical lead of advertising I built several generations of ad systems over multiple years. I led architecture and worked with product designers and executives to increase revenue and achieve company profitability. To build the system I lead a team of 3-6 engineers through ideation, project design, and implementation.
Built several generations of advertising systems that sold millions of dollars of ads every year. Built using RTB, Self Serve, and Targeting Systems.
Designed and implemented our experimentation and a/b testing system. The system allowed us to connect any experiment to changes in revenue and other KPIs.
Lead an anti-toxicity initiative involving backend & user facing work involving classifying content by toxicity level and exposing the results to moderators.
Created a realtime comment delivery system for 5 million concurrent active users.
Software Engineer,
Jan, 2010 - Jan, 20111 year
Worked on the cloud research team doing things that were very cool, but are sadly still under NDA.
Skills
Skills
- Things I'm really good at
python
django
microservices
docker
redis
- Buzzwords I'm familiar with
thrift
celery
rabbit
kafka
kubernetes
cassandra
bigtable
postgres
mysql
airflow
aws
Education
Education
Computer Science, Masters, The College of William and Mary
- Present
Computer Science, Bachelors, Denison University
- Present
Awards
Awards
Time Person of the Year , Time Magazine
Awarded on: Jan 01, 2006
References
References
- Jeremy Laskar — Lead Frontend @ Fitciv
I worked with Adam at Disqus for several years - during that time both the breadth and depth of his development knowledge proved to be critical assets in the company's success. Adam has a knack for looking at a problem, asking critical questions, and then being able to design an effective, scalable solution to that problem. At a company serving millions of users daily, those skills proved invaluable for us on multiple occasions.
- Yony Feng — Founder/CTO @ Peloton
Energetic and always willing to learn. Adam is at the forefront of keeping up with technology trends and techniques. Intelligent and lives off of Computer Science. He's a great addition to any high performance team.