Sterling Hackley
Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSterling Hackley is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building backend and mobile systems, currently focused on server foundations at Coinbase. He has progressed through engineering roles at Bird and Snap, moving from hands-on iOS and full-stack work to senior and staff engineering responsibilities that blend platform architecture with delivery. Based in Austin, Sterling has a strong foundation from UT Austin and a history of shipping product-critical systems at fast-moving consumer and mobility startups. He brings practical expertise in scaling services and mentoring engineers, having repeatedly stepped into higher-impact roles across short, intense tenures. A pragmatic problem-solver, he pairs mobile platform insight with backend reliability—an uncommon cross-section that helps bridge product teams and infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (9)
ocmockito10
cocoapods9
ocmock8
swift8
mocking6
dependency-injection6
swift-macros5
swift-package4
kotlin3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
shackley/shackley.github.io
Aug 2016 - Aug 2025
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
shackley/swift-blade
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A macro powered dependency injection framework for Swift
Contributions:12 releases, 1 PR, 61 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dependency-injectionswift
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