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.

Photo of me and my family, June 2024
Lakeland, FL, June 2024

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.