CJ Horton

Software engineer and lifelong generalist.

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whoami

I'm a senior software engineer at HashiCorp, working on Terraform and Terraform Cloud. Previously, I was a software engineer at Revelry. I live in Portland, OR, grew up in the South, and use they/them or he/him pronouns.

I tried my hand at a few other things before I found my way to programming: I have a music degree, worked as a dog handler, spent a while doing freelance production work for the publishing industry, and at one point narrowly escaped becoming a public librarian.

My career so far has allowed me to explore many layers of the stack as well as the spectrum from product engineer to SRE. I've architected holistic product features, led complex backend rearchitectures, commanded incidents, and tracked down scaling bottlenecks in distributed systems at scale.

I tend to enjoy work that solves practical problems. I write code for people to read, and I build software for people to use.

When not at my laptop, I'm usually lifting something heavy, exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest, reading scifi (the campier the better), or submitting to the whims of my local feline overlord.