About

These days I’m Head of Engineering at Pine, where I was the first employee. I came on as the founding engineer and had the opportunity to build lending systems and the teams building them from scratch.

Before Pine, I was at RBC, where I started as an intern and worked up to an engineering manager role. I worked in business banking building payments systems, platform tooling, and financial spreading applications.

I consider myself a hacker at heart. I enjoy building random tools, scripts and learning by breaking into stuff. In college I built AlphaConsole a mod that used DLL injection to offer in game features and cosmetic enhancements. Along with volunteers we grew it to 5 million downloads, 300k monthly active users and at one point, the largest discord server in the world.

I have always enjoyed reading personal blogs of other engineers. This site is me contributing back to that ecosystem while also challenging myself to write (without AI), develop ideas and reflect on my career.

resume is available via the api:curl https://api.hayden.dev/resumejson by default, add -H 'Accept: text/markdown' for markdownor grab it directly as markdown / json