About
I’m Eddie Hinkle — partner to Charlie, father to three, and an engineering leader in the Washington, DC metro area. I build interfaces and the systems underneath them, and I’ve been publishing on my own website, at my own domain, for long enough to have done it badly several times.
This is roughly the fifth version of this site. The previous ones died of the same thing every time — a deployment that rotted, or a rebuild whose scope outgrew the evenings available to it. So this one is deliberately boring underneath: static files, no server, no database, nothing that needs feeding. The old URLs still work, because people linked to them and that’s a promise worth keeping.
Now
- I manage engineering at Indeed across both the front end and the back end, currently leading a full rearchitecture of our notifications system — moving it away from volume as the lever for engagement and toward notifications that are timely and relevant to what each user actually needs. It is the same UX instinct I have always brought to interfaces, now applied to the notification itself.
- Nights and weekends I run Syntax Labs, a one-person iOS studio, where I am building a journal called Daily and two apps for my own children.
- I write fiction when there is time, which there usually is not.
Contact
That address rotates every year — the number is the year it belongs to. Old ones keep working for a while and then stop, which keeps the spam manageable. If you’re reading this in a later year, use the address shown here rather than one you saved.