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Aaron Hillier

Woodside,CA

Summary

Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record in delivering high-impact projects and enhancing team collaboration. Expertise in Full Stack development, encompassing API design, database architecture, and UI/UX design. Proficient in implementing full CI/CD processes to streamline development workflows. Committed to mentoring emerging talent and achieving significant business results.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Meta
Menlo Park, California
01.2025 - Current
  • Led development of "Existing Post Ads" feature for Threads, utilizing Meta’s Hack, React, GraphQL, and Django to drive 5% increase in advertiser opt-in rates and 3% revenue uplift.
  • Spearheaded "Dynamic Product Ads" project on Threads, implementing ad delivery systems with Hack, React, and Django, achieving 6% increase in advertiser opt-in rates through personalized ads.
  • Drove "App Ads" project on Threads, addressing collaboration challenges by escalating to senior management, resulting in 6% boost in advertiser opt-in rates through effective technical implementation.

Senior Software Engineer

H-E-B
San Antonio, Texas
02.2018 - 12.2024
  • Tech Lead on Digital Pricing Team, managing applications, APIs, and data sources for 1 million+ products across ~500 stores.
  • Designed Competitive Pricing Repair initiative, enabling savings of ~$10-20 million annually through dynamic pricing adjustments based on relevant competitors.
  • Led database efficiency efforts to enhance Competitive Pricing API's processing of over 500 million competitive pricing records.
  • Mentored junior engineers in REST API design, Test Driven Development (TDD), SQL architecture, Microservice Architecture, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD practices.
  • Collaborated with junior engineers to establish personalized career development plans for swift promotions.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
12-2017

Skills

  • UI/UX - HTML, TypeScript, CSS, React, Angular, design, etc
  • API development - REST, microservices, CRUD, Swagger, best practices, etc
  • Software testing: unit tests, integration tests, e2e tests, handshake tests
  • Site reliability - proper logging, monitoring, on-call, and SLAs
  • Languages: Java, Python, Go, TypeScript, SQL, PHP, very adaptable
  • Frameworks - Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate, Django, ORMs
  • Team collaboration: mentorship, paired programming, design alignment, marketing alignment, legal alignment
  • Cloud infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, hosted DBs, security

Affiliations

  • Pizza making, sand volleyball, pickleball, foodie, dog lover

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Meta
01.2025 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

H-E-B
02.2018 - 12.2024

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Texas A&M University

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