Alex Hillegass
Software Developer at FIS
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hillegass is a software developer with a decade of hands-on experience building production automation, computer vision, and machine learning solutions across industry and aerospace research. A UCF computer science graduate (3.9 GPA), he has shipped enterprise .NET automation frameworks and OCR integrations at FIS, deployed data analysis tools for manufacturing, and contributed simulation and vision tooling as a NASA Swamp Works contractor. His background spans practical CI/CD incident fixes, leading small teams, and research-driven innovations—like API work that cut LIGGGHTS simulation labor by 300% and OpenCV pipelines for particle tracking in parabolic flight tests. Comfortable moving between MATLAB, Python, and .NET stacks, he combines rigorous academic foundations with pragmatic system-building and a knack for automating tedious analysis. Based in Orlando, he’s seeking a full-time role where his adaptability and cross-domain experience can accelerate delivery on challenging vision or automation projects.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.9, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.9 at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (84)
high-energy-physics10
forge10
c1110
cpp10
shiny10
single-file10
neutrino10
hpc-applications10
cpp-library10
pinning10
astrophysics10
prebuild10
smithy10
simulation10
lists10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NuSpaceSim/nupyprop
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 149 commits in 2 years
fermi-lat/BayesianBlocks
Aug 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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