Hi, I'm Brian Hamilton.

I'm a software engineer at Pinterest, where I work on the API platform team. I used to teach religion and philosophy at Florida Southern College.

I grew up in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Now I live just over the mountain in Charlottesville with my childhood sweetheart and our six-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 2025, after a year studying algorithms with two of the best teachers I’ve ever met and building a contest platform for newspapers, I hung up my academic robes and joined Pinterest as an engineer.

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