# Trey Hakanson

> Pushing Packets @ Skydio | Ex-Meta

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/treyhakanson

Software engineer with a love for complex technical challenges. Happy to chat about anything tech related, feel free to drop me a line!

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer & Engineering Manager @ Skydio
Jan 2026 – Present
Leading development of streaming backend services and infrastructure, supporting live-streaming, remote operations, third party video integrations, and internal real-time service frameworks.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Skydio
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Mateo, CA
Designing and developing components powering remote operation at scale, including teleoperation, third-party video integrations, and internal frameworks to enable product teams to build scalable and resilient real-time services.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Skydio
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Designing and implementing the cloud components of Skydio Connect Fusion, the drone world’s first multi-modal connectivity solution.

### Senior Software Engineer 2 @ Skydio
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Full-stack software engineer improving Skydio's teleoperation experience and developing third-party video integrations and live streaming APIs.

### Senior Software Engineer 1 @ Skydio
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Full-stack software engineer improving Skydio's teleoperation experience.

### Senior Software Engineer (E5) @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, CA
Full-stack software engineer on the Facebook & Instagram shopping team, tech lead for the shopping Q&A platform.

### Software Engineer (E4) @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Full-stack software engineer on the Facebook & Instagram shopping team. Became tech lead for the shopping Q&A platform.

### Junior Software Engineer (E3) @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Full-stack software engineer on Facebook save and collections team, followed by Facebook & Intsagram consumer services team.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Mobikit
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Columbus, Ohio Area
• Led development of Mobikit data infrastructure for connected vehicles platform
• Backend development (Python Django, PostgreSQL)
• Dev-ops (GCP, AWS stacks)
• Frontend development and UI/UX (ReactJS)
• Code reviews and mentorship

### Research Fellow @ The Ohio State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Columbus, Ohio Area
• Created platform for realtime visualization/manipulation of large spatiotemporal datasets
• Developed React/Redux frontend, interacting with PostgreSQL DB through Node API
• Extensive work on optimizations for realtime feedback, including database sampling, parallelized queries, and predictive cacheing and indexing

### SDE Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
• Worked with an agile team to deliver SQL parsing utilities for data lineage extraction.

### Frontend Developer @ Scent Trunk
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area
• Lead frontend developer on team of four; project consists of HTML (Django Templating), SCSS, and ES6 Javascript with Webpack
• Involved in UI/UX and product iterations to refine the experience for customers as data was acquired
• Developed frontend build pipeline via Gulp.js and bash scripting for automation

### Co-Founder @ Hatchli
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Cincinnati, Ohio Area
• Led frontend development (iOS and web)
• Fully designed UI/UX, down to the majority of the graphics
• Managed product roadmap and developed new features within the platform
• Graduate of Brandery Accelerator (ranked top 10 in US at the time, <0.1% acceptance rate)
• Worked with word-class mentors from companies such as P&G, Snapchat, and more


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
The Ohio State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/trey-hakanson

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Last updated: 2026-03-31