Daniel Hillis
Cloud Computing Enthusiast
Concord,US
Summary
Software engineer, hands-on leader, and solutions architect with 25 years of experience delivering and supporting a variety of products and services, focusing on highly resilient and scalable cloud-native applications.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
4
4
Certificates
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Modernization Architect
Amazon Web Services
Boston, MA
09.2022 - Current
- Designed and built transformative solutions for US-based government and healthcare customers.
- Led AWS technical teams on Professional Services projects.
Chief Information Officer
Prime Occupational Medicine
Baton Rouge, LA
07.2021 - 09.2022
- Led engineering effort to identify and recover over $700K in aging revenue during Q1 2022.
- Led selection and implementation of SOC-2 and HIPAA compliance preparation.
- Led software development team of 6 US-based software engineers and offshore team of 6.
- Led IT department network refresh, reducing networking equipment cost by 60% and shortening provisioning time from 2 weeks to 2 days.
- Led replacement of aging corporate auto attendant with Amazon Connect virtual call center and reduced average time-in-flow by 75%.
Senior Cloud Application Architect
Amazon Web Services
Baton Rouge, LA
06.2021 - 07.2021
- Designed and built cloud-native solutions to modernize mainframe and midrange on-premises workloads, extending capabilities to AWS.
- Led AWS technical teams on Professional Services engagements, including highly visible and mission-critical applications for our customers.
- Interviewed more than 20 candidates to help grow our practice by more than 50%.
Director of Engineering
MAX Digital
Austin, TX
08.2018 - 06.2021
- Led 21 engineers and analysts across multiple teams building SaaS products for automotive retailers.
- Held regular 1:1 meetings with teammates to find ways to align work with their career goals and provide safe forum for honest feedback.
- Built strong teams through selective recruitment and post-hire mentorship of engineers, growing team by 25%.
- Led adoption of AWS services to scale capabilities of engineering team and SaaS applications.
Principal Engineer
MAX Digital
Austin, TX
03.2012 - 08.2018
- Led architecture of new cloud-native, event driven, serverless applications.
- Mentored team on event-driven, loosely coupled architecture, and evangelized benefits of automated testing and continuous improvement to team, increasing code coverage by more than 30%.
- Built and supported many components of SaaS products.
Advisory Programmer Analyst
Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana
Baton Rouge, LA
07.2011 - 03.2012
- Rebuilt external data integration for members' pharmacy eligibility to thousands of pharmacies across Louisiana. Eliminated (reduced by 100%) long standing problems with inconsistencies between daily and weekly feeds.
- Added automated testing to guard against regressions and enable continuous improvement.
Senior Software Engineer
MAX Digital (Incisent)
Austin, TX
10.2009 - 07.2011
- Designed, built, and tested all phases (web, middle tier, database) of web application components for SaaS application.
- Designed ETL solution for ingestion of analytic automotive marketing metrics data which successfully processed metrics for over 1M inventory items daily.
- Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
Application Developer
Symbio Solutions
Dallas, TX
07.2008 - 08.2009
- Maintained and enhanced JavaScript code for PRN staffing SaaS application.
- Achieved a100% reduction in errors due to lack of code-reuse.
Application Development Specialist
Perot Systems Corporation
Dallas, TX
07.1998 - 07.2008
- Enhanced and maintained mainframe-based, COBOL/JCL HRMS application for large US healthcare company.
- Modernized HRMS web application by bridging legacy system using Microfocus COBOL, achieved reduction of year end adjustment runs by 50%.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Mathematics And Computer Science
01.2015 - 01.2018
Some College (No Degree) - Commercial Art, Biology
08.1991 - 06.1993
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
02-2023
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
02-2023
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
01-2023
Senior Modernization Architect - Amazon Web Services
09.2022 - Current
AWS Certified Security - Specialty
11-2021
Chief Information Officer - Prime Occupational Medicine
07.2021 - 09.2022
Senior Cloud Application Architect - Amazon Web Services
06.2021 - 07.2021
Director of Engineering - MAX Digital
08.2018 - 06.2021
Louisiana State University And A&M College - Some College (No Degree), Mathematics And Computer Science
01.2015 - 01.2018
Principal Engineer - MAX Digital
03.2012 - 08.2018
Advisory Programmer Analyst - Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Louisiana
07.2011 - 03.2012
Senior Software Engineer - MAX Digital (Incisent)
10.2009 - 07.2011
Application Developer - Symbio Solutions
07.2008 - 08.2009
Application Development Specialist - Perot Systems Corporation
07.1998 - 07.2008
Central Missouri State University - Some College (No Degree), Commercial Art, Biology
08.1991 - 06.1993
Skills
Software Architecture Design
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