Hunter Morrison

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Backend Engineer at Workday · Java, Kafka

Workday
Denver, CO · MT (UTC-7)
2+ years experience
Boston University
English, Arabic
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Overview

I've spent 2 years on payments infrastructure, now at Workday. Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 25 a week to 3. Most at home with Go and Java. I tinker with 3D printers.

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  • Questions about payments infrastructure
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Requests to fix your code for free

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Skills
KafkaPCI DSSGodistributed systemsJavaidempotencyPostgreSQL

Experience

  1. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2024 - Present
    Workday · 2 yr · Contract · Denver, CO
    • Took payment success rates from 95.8% to 96.2%.
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 789ms to 147ms.
    • Moved 69% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Open-source distributed systems toolkit
2023

A small library for payments infrastructure that 113 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Boston University
    BS, Mathematics
    2019 - 2023

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