Rod Hilton

Software Craftsman and Computer Science Geek

Software Engineer working primarily in the JVM with Java, Groovy, and Scala with a lot of Ruby coding on the side
Movie geek and freelance columnist for cracked.com, creator of "Machete Order"
Voracious reader of technical books and insatiable learner

Experience

Passionate, hardworking polyglot programmer with strong CS background and over a decade of experience following good engineering principles (TDD, CI, SOLID, DRY, YAGNI) developing scalable backend services, web applications, and client applications

Senior Backend Engineer (2021-Present)

Epic Games

Social team member, building Epic Online Services for friends, messaging, partying

Senior Software Engineer (2017-2021)

Twitter

Core Tweet Service backend Team, storing and serving all Tweets within Twitter at massive scale utilizing Scala, Java, Kafka, Hadoop, and Thrift.

Principal Engineer (2011-2017)

Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable)

Cross-Platform team, built Common Services Tier middleware service as well as various customer-facing web portals utilizing Java, Groovy, Grails, Scala, JavaScript, and JQuery.

Java Web Applications Developer (2008-2011)

CA Technologies (formerly Rally Software)

Agile Lifecycle Management team, developed J2EE SaaS web application for enterprise scala adoption utilizing Spring, Servlets, JSPs, and AJAX.

Software Engineer (2007-2008)

Rogue Wave Software (formerly OpenLogic)

OpenLogic Enterprise team, developed SaaS web applications to manage open source across corporations as well as open source scanning desktop application utilizing Java, Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript.

Senior Software Developer (2004-2007)

Acxiom (formerly InsightAmerica)

eDriverData team, built console application for collecting and linking data from public records databases for background screening and debt collection utilizing Java, ColdFusion, SQL Server.

Education

"Perpetual student" taking supplementary MOOC classes online, attending professional conferences annually, and reading constantly

M.S., Computer Science

University of Colorado at Denver

Specialization in Machine Learning, Theory, and Algorithms

M.S., Software Engineering

Regis University

Thesis: Quantitatively Evaluating Test-Driven Development by Applying Object-Oriented Quality Metrics to Open Source Projects

B.S., Computer Science

University of Rochester

Focus on Systems

Skills

Accomplished: Java, Git, Scala, Spring, REST
Advanced: HTML/CSS, Ruby, MySQL, JavaScript, Groovy, Kafka, Grails, Thrift, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Python, AngularJS
Novice: SOAP, SBT, AWS, memcached, Redis, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, hazelcast, Docker
Desired: ElasticSearch, Spark, Cassandra