Hi, I’m Brian Hamilton.

I’ve spent the last decade teaching religion and philosophy at Florida Southern College. I plan to spend the next decade as a software engineer.

I grew up in Harrisonburg, Virginia. I live now in Lakeland, Florida, with my childhood sweetheart and our four-year-old daughter. But—big news—we’re moving this summer to Charlottesville, Virginia. We can’t wait.

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.

Over the last year, I’ve rediscovered an old passion for writing code. I started studying algorithms with the two of the best teachers I’ve ever met, and I started building everything I could think of to build. What started as sheer fun has become a new career path. I’m looking to move into an engineering role later this year.

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