Rod Hilton
- 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 back-end services, web applications, and client applications
Principal Engineer (2011-2017)
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)
Agile Lifecycle Management team, developed J2EE SaaS web application for enterprise scala adoption utilizing Spring, Servlets, JSPs, and AJAX.
Software Engineer (2007-2008)
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)
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., Software Engineering
B.S., Computer Science
Focus on Systems
Skills
- Accomplished: Java, HTML/CSS, Ruby
- Advanced: Spring, Git, JavaScript, Groovy, Scala, Grails, Oracle
- Novice: PostgreSQL, Angular, REST, SOAP, SBT, Jenkins, Lift, memcached, hazelcast
- Desired: AWS, Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Spark, Cassandra