Angela Hillier
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Boise Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAngela Hillier is a senior software engineer with 21 years of experience building developer-facing tools and immersive entertainment software, currently contributing to Microsoft since 2022. She specializes in game development, AR/VR (HoloLens, Windows Mixed Reality), middleware, and developer engagement—creating plugins, sample templates, and training that help studios and indie creators ship faster. Her background spans hands-on engine work in C++/UE4 and Unity, tool and automation development in C# and WPF, and test engineering across Xbox and Kinect platforms. Angela has delivered curriculum and workshops to over a thousand developers and contributed to the Mixed Reality Toolkit and other open-source efforts. Based in the Boise area, she balanced a period as an indie developer pursuing passion projects while remaining available for roles, bringing both product-quality focus and a developer-advocate mindset. Her interdisciplinary training in computer science and zoology gives her a pragmatic, research-informed approach to problem solving and prototyping.
20 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Idaho State University
Github Skills (20)
openxr10
openvr10
quaternions10
mocap10
hololens10
mrtk10
unity3d10
targeting9
windows-mixed-reality9
cross-platform9
water-quality9
watershed8
volume-rendering8
experiences7
virtual-reality7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
angelaHillier/HoloToolkit-Unity
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
unity3dunityholotoolkit
angelaHillier/RecordAndPlaybackBasics-WPF
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 branch, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year 7 months
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