Hi, I'm Brian Hamilton.

I spent the last decade teaching religion and philosophy at Florida Southern College. Now I'm an apprentice engineer at Pinterest. Some recent writing:

• Two new essays on ignorance and moral reasoning — December 2, 2025

I grew up in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Now I live just over the mountain in Charlottesville with my childhood sweetheart and our five-year-old daughter. In between, I lived in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Italy, Connecticut, and Florida.

I got my Ph.D. in theological ethics under the inimitable Jean Porter at the University of Notre Dame, where I wrote a dissertation on the medieval Franciscans. I joined the faculty at Florida Southern in 2015, and spent some very happy years reading old books with undergraduates.

In 2024, I rediscovered an old passion for writing code. I started studying algorithms with two of the best teachers I’ve ever met and built a contest platform for newspapers. By some magic, Pinterest made a bet on me, and in June 2025 I joined the team working on their core APIs.

My personal hero—and I mean this in all earnestness—is Mr. Rogers.