# Hans Huber

> Software Engineer at Brilliant.org

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hanshuber

I love elegant solutions, maintainable code, creative problem solving, collaboration, and mentoring.
I'm skilled at high performance distributed system architecture and development.
I believe in iterative, test-driven development, and continuous integration, testing, and deployment.
I’m passionate about amplifying underrepresented voices.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Brilliant.org
Jan 2020 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Patreon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
- Designed and led project to split Patreon’s monolithic application and database into independent services.
- Monitored and improved performance of critical payments processing during massive first-of-the-month billing load.
- Worked across engineering to establish best practices for coding and continuous testing and deployment.
- Implemented new payment gateway integration under extreme time pressure during existential threat to company.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
- Coordinated disaster recovery planning for a massive data deletion attack.
- Designed and built system to manage and track secure backups across Facebook’s infrastructure.
- Designed and led development of a secure replacement for a 3rd-party identity management tool.
- Maintained and improved Facebook’s internal ACL-based authorization service and access alerting systems.

### MTS @ Hillview Technologies Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
- Implemented an authentication server using Python Twisted/Autobahn to authenticate users via PAM from web app and validate user cookies from browser server based on authentication records.

### Staff Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
- Architect / Project Lead / Scrum Master / Developer for Endpoint Security product, which provides file and network events from Windows VMs to Linux service VMs to enable agentless antivirus and other applications.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Okta, Inc.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco
- Implementation of Okta's multi-tenant SaaS application.  Java / Spring / Hibernate / Javascript / jquery

### Senior Software Architect @ Kabira Technologies
Jan 1998 – Jan 2010
- Developed and maintained Kabira's transactional UML-based development platform.
- Built a Java management component framework to integrate with Kabira’s management framework.
- Designed and implemented a high-performance multithreaded network manager.
- Performance testing and tuning, including designing some novel low-contention locking mechanisms.
- Implemented build systems, dependency management, and system management frameworks.

### Software Engineer @ Sybase
Jan 1994 – Jan 1998
Developed native multithreaded version of Sybase's cooperative multitasking Open Server product.

### Staff Engineer @ Sun Microsystems
Jan 1992 – Jan 1994
- Solaris kernel development

### Software Engineer @ Arete Systems / Arix Inc
Jan 1988 – Jan 1992
Unix utilities and kernel development


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
Louisiana State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hans-huber-0115135

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Last updated: 2026-04-12