# Russell Hawkins

> Software Engineer at 1047 Games (makers of Splitgate)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/russellhawkins

Software Engineer on Google’s Cloud AI and Industry Solutions Engineering Productivity (CAIIS EngProd) Team and Actor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!

Graduated with a dual major in Computer Science and Acting from Carnegie Mellon University.  Has a proven track record of team leadership, design, and development. Passionate about bettering the developer experience through quality developer tools. Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, self-motivated, able to work well with minimal supervision, and skilled communicator with exceptional interpersonal skills.

Experienced in full stack development (with a focus on developer tools) using languages such as Python, C#, Java, Go, PowerShell, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ 1047 Games
Jan 2022 – Present
Working to make the game Splitgate as fun and high-quality as possible!

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Software Engineer on Google’s Engineering Productivity team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
Azure Stack Hub -- Patch & Update Team

End-to-end owner of two critical customer-facing long-running operations (Add-Node and FRU):
o Lead frequent collaboration with 3 other teams
o Interacted with 8+ other teams that have code running in said operations.
o Refactored both operations for clarity and reliability
o Stabilized success rate from the 60-80% range to an average 95%.

Creator and owner of a widely used long-running operation failure diagnostics & routing tool:
o Used by support engineers all over the world
o Reduced average number of misrouted support cases per month by 70%
o Saved 100s of hours of customer’s time and product/support engineer time

Part of initiative to convert all critical-path PowerShell code to C# for speed and better testing.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
Azure Stack Hub -- Patch & Update Team

Developed an idempotency testing framework for long running operations that caught over 20 bugs.

### Explorer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Azure Stack Hub -- Compute Team

Created a log diagnostics tool that would help visualize calls between multiple components by
tracking the Correlation Id between rest calls.

### Software Developer @ Renaissance Treatment Center
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Fairmount Heights, MD
Identified problem with document creation processes in the company. Researched information on counselor’s comfortability with software. Developed VB application enabling rapid document creation and organization. Increased document creation speed by more than 3X. Created individualized log in and accessibility for increased security.

### Intern @ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
In charge of creating an accurate model of the spacecraft dynamics of one of the ST-5 spacecraft, including: orbit, spin rate, attitude, and quaternions. Tasked with creating a model of the spacecraft’s Sun Sensor and Magnetometer.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Acting
Carnegie Mellon University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/russellhawkins1
- Portfolio: http://ThatGuyRussell.com
- Portfolio: http://facebook.com/russell.aspirations

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Last updated: 2026-03-29