Christopher Hittner
Software Development Engineer III at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Hittner is a Software Development Engineer III at AWS with 12 years of professional experience and a BS in Computer Science (with a math minor) from Stevens Institute of Technology. He focuses on back-end systems for the Lex platform, routinely shipping production Java and Python services and drawing on C for performance-sensitive work. His background spans the full software lifecycle—from an intern who implemented CloudWatch Events improvements to leading features in AWS services—and includes graduate-level work in computer vision, NLP, and deep learning. Christopher also explores programming languages and differentiable interpreters in side projects on GitHub, reflecting a blend of systems engineering and research curiosity. Based in Seattle, he thrives in roles that push his technical limits and prefers building novel methods that solve hard problems at scale.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Stevens Institute of TechnologyWoodbridge High School
Github Skills (6)
interpreted-programming-language7
backpropagation6
search-engine5
algorithm5
simulation5
python4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vimlord/Lomda
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
An interpreted programming language with mathematical functionality.
Contributions:2 releases, 338 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 2 months
interpreted-programming-language
vimlord/GargleSearchEngine
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
A hobby search engine for my amusement.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
search-engineimage-search-engineinception-v3reverse-image-search
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