jim.hill.r@gmail.com
Github: jim-hill-r
LinkedIn: jimhillr
Be better, build better.
Education
Masters of Science
3.9/4.0 GPA
Computer Science
2016
Georgia Institute of Technology
Machine Learning Specialization
Masters of Science
3.9/4.0 GPA
Mechanical Engineering
2014
Northern Illinois University
Bachelors of Science
3.9/4.0 GPA
Mechanical Engineering
2006
Northern Illinois University
Skills
Summary
I have more than 20 years of experience in software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering in industries including software tech, healthcare, education, automotive, mining, aviation and power generation. During my career, I have held roles as a design engineer, applications engineer, software developer, and software engineer at Caterpillar, Renishaw, GE Digital, and IMO respectively. Recently I have been a software engineer at two startups, NavAbility and JuliaHub. Combining this experience with a pair of Master's degrees in mechanical and software engineering allows me to provide a comprehensive view of how digital technology can help solve the real challenges faced by a modern internet.
Experience as an Engineer
JuliaHub | Staff Software Engineer
2024-Present
- Collaborate with product management to define and plan technical work for JuliaSim products
- Design and deliver high-quality, on-time features for frontend UI and backend services
- Responsible for build, deploy, and triage of production releases.
JuliaHub | Infrastructure Team Lead
2023-2024
- Assumed role of people manager for the core platform infrastructure team while continuing cloud engineer role
- Maintained backlog and groomed support tickets and issues for team
- Point of contact for sales engineering, developers, and SOC2 compliance ensuring reliable architecture and coordinated upgrades
JuliaHub | Cloud Engineer
2022-2024
- Responsible for site reliability for public, multi-tenant, single-tenant, and on-premise platform installations via Grafana alerting, observability and on-call rotations
- Implemented infrastructure improvements including CIS best practices; CICD for terraform, ansible, kustomize and custom Julia scripts; custom fluentbit logging solution; golden AMIs with Packer; and Stripe billing integrations
- Owned AWS security (SSO/IAM) access while improving developer experience with tools such as Tilt and Github Actions.
NavAbility | Principal Software Engineer
2020-2022
- Designed, developed and operationalized progressive web app on AWS
- Architected cloud system in collaboration with core Caesar.jl team including CICD
- Implemented and launched over 10 microservices on AWS ECS entirely with CloudFormation
- Produced marketing website using Elementor on Wordpress
Intelligent Medical Objects | Enterprise Architect
2020-2021
- Architected the evolutionary architecture for the future of core search and normalize
- Evangelized a shift to cross-team microservices architectures
- Mentored multiple teams in api design while shifting away from 3-tiered architectures
Intelligent Medical Objects | Staff Software Engineer
2019-2020
- Provisioned and operated high availability infrastructure for core search product on AWS
- Responsible for technology upgrade from .NET to ElasticSearch and AWS Lambda
- Supported and mentored engineers to ensure rapid delivery of quality software leveraging agile scrum
GE Digital | Senior Software Engineer
2015-2019
- Develop dotnet and web apps improving efficiency and scalability of the GE Digital managed services organization
- Primary project manager, architect, designer and developer for products built on Predix cloud and WinForms
- Responsible for delivering agile sprint stories involving C#, NodeJS, Angular2, Spring Boot, Postgres, OAuth2, and Cloud Foundry
GE Digital | Customer Reliability Engineer
2013-2015
Renishaw | Applications Engineer
2010-2013
Caterpillar | Design Engineer
2006-2009
Experience as an Educator
FIRST Robotics | Volunteer Mentor & Team Leader
2008-2009, 2022-Present
Aurora University | Adjunct Professor
2017
Northern Illinois University | Graduate Assistant
2009-2010
Northern Illinois University | Peer Tutor
2003-2005
Experience as an Entrepreneur
NavAbility | Co-founder
2020-2022
- Managed operations, cost, project planning and uptime of cloud product
- Collaborated on submissions for grants and venture capital funding
GE Digital | Product Manager
2017-2019
- Developed the global strategy for providing expertise-based, continuous consulting services for GE customers
- Provided support for marketing, sales, and new product introductions
- Managed two scrums teams developing cloud software for industrial customers
Spark Hill, LLC | Founder
2014-2015
American Cancer Society | Volunteer Event Chairman
2008-2010