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Hunter Wiginton

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I started in a full-time non-dev job, taught myself to code, became a frontend dev, now full-stack in the AI space at one of the largest software companies in the world. I ship side projects in public under the Hackastak umbrella: CLIs, AI agent tooling, workflow automations, and digital products on Gumroad.

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Featured Projects

Side projects under the Hackastak umbrella. Built in public, shipped on weekends, and paid for in coffee. The CLI you can install today; the apparel you can wear tomorrow.

FlintBrain

A cross-platform desktop note-taking app built around the PARA method — organize everything into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. Rich-text editing, task lists, and fast capture for frictionless thinking.

TauriRustReactTypeScriptMilkdownSQLite

RepoG

CLI-first, local AI tool to explore, search, and understand your GitHub repositories using semantic search and LLM-powered insights — your codebase, queryable from the terminal.

GoCobraSQLitesqlite-vecLLM

BillScribe

Full-stack invoice creation and management tool. Build invoices, export them to PDF, and bill clients through Stripe, backed by Supabase auth and storage.

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseStripeDrizzle ORM

// Other Noteworthy Projects

Staksmith

ProtoFlow

Hackastak Homebrew Tap

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From The HackaStak

Honest, no-BS recommendations on the tools and practices worth your time. Developer tooling, AI x dev workflow, engineering best practices, and career notes from a self-taught dev still in the trenches.

Jul 15, 20269 min read

8 MCP Servers Every Developer Should Try in 2026: Stop Copy-Pasting Into Your AI

You ask your AI assistant to fix a bug. It writes the fix. Then you copy it, paste it into your editor, run the tests yourself, copy the error back, paste it into the chat, and…

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Jul 8, 20267 min read

Prompt Engineering Is the New Digital Literacy: Why Your Career Depends on it in 2026

The skill nobody put on your job description, but everyone will quietly measure you against In 2010, if you couldn’t Google your way to an answer, you looked slow at work. In 2017,…

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Jul 1, 202611 min read

10 CLI Tools That Replace Your GUI in 2026: The Terminal-Native Stack That Earned Its Spot

GUIs lock you into someone else’s UX. These 10 CLI tools earned a permanent spot in my shell. Image generated by AI Every GUI is a series of decisions someone else made for you.…

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Jun 24, 20267 min read

Stop Coding Harder: 10 Behaviors That Move Junior Engineers to Mid-Level

The jump from junior to mid-level isn’t a coding problem. It’s a behavior problem. You’ve been writing code professionally for two years. You ship features. You close tickets. Your…

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Experience

From a non-dev full-time job to full-stack engineering at a major AI software company — the timeline of the pivot, plus the side-project habit that came along for the ride.

Work Experience

2025 — Present

Full-Stack AI Engineer

SAP, Inc.

Building production AI agent tooling, MCP integrations, and Claude SDK-powered workflows for enterprise teams. Day-job lessons feed The HackaStak's AI x developer pillar.

TypeScriptJavaScriptGremlinClaude SDKMCPNext.jsPythonGraph DBs
2022 — 2025

Full-Stack Engineer

SAP, Inc.

Owned the customer-facing application — design system, accessibility, and performance work. Mentored teammates and shipped the features that moved the metrics.

JavaSpringbootSQLReactTypeScriptJavaScriptNext.jsTailwind
2018 — 2022

Self-Taught Career Pivot

Smith & Nephew, Inc.

Started in a non-dev full-time role, taught myself to code on nights and weekends, then moved into engineering full-time. The original Hackastak side-project habit was forged here.

JavaScriptPythonHTML/CSSReactGit

Self-Taught

No CS degree. The foundation got built in side projects, OSS, and shipping in public. Bootcamp grads, juniors, and self-taught devs are exactly who The HackaStak is for.

  • >Published CLIs to Homebrew
  • >Contributing to MCP / agent ecosystem
  • >Cross-posted essays on Medium, Dev.to, Hashnode

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Core Skills

Frontend

React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind

Backend

Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL

AI / Agents

Claude SDK, MCP, OpenAI SDK, prompting

Tooling

Neovim, tmux, Ghostty, Homebrew