Anthony Hillairet
Technical Lead & Senior Python Architect at Six Feet Up, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Hillairet is a Technical Lead and Senior Python Architect with 11 years of experience translating complex requirements into production-grade backend systems and leading teams from planning through deployment. He combines a PhD-level background in particle physics—where he led reconstruction software and managed large-scale data and analysis workflows—with hands-on engineering and DevOps improvements in commercial settings. Known for championing FastAPI, Docker, and automated CI practices, he has architected high-throughput integrations (e.g., Shopify to BigQuery) that dramatically improved data pipeline performance. Anthony excels at mentorship and team building, running regular learning sessions and onboarding programs that uplift junior engineers into reliable contributors. He balances client-facing scoping and delivery management with deep technical design, producing clear architecture docs and implementation plans that align teams and stakeholders. Based in Vancouver, he brings a rare mix of scientific rigor and practical product delivery that helps teams move from proof-of-concept to resilient, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Elementary Particle Physics at University of Victoria
English, French
Github Skills (96)
fastapi10
postgresql10
operation10
json-schema10
python10
portainer10
swagger10
docker-container10
dockerfile10
namespaces10
pydantic10
openapi10
async10
docker-compose10
swagger-ui10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SatelCreative/spylib
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
A library to facilitate interfacing with Shopify's API
Contributions:10 releases, 187 reviews, 65 commits in 1 year 2 months
apiapi-sshopify
SatelCreative/docker-python-base
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Base image for python docker projects
Contributions:15 releases, 28 reviews, 55 commits in 3 years 9 months
pythondocker-imagebase-imagedockerpython3
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