Bill Hails
Senior Software Engineer at N Brown Group
North Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBill Hails is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over three decades of hands-on programming experience and a decade focused on modern API and cloud architecture. He has led API design and migrations at LoveCrafts—moving platforms from Magento to Commercetools, introducing GraphQL and Jaeger tracing—and has deep AWS operational experience with CloudFormation, SAM, SQS, SNS and S3. His background includes building and maintaining high-scale microservices and billing systems at Amazon and pioneering i18n/l10n platform tools and a publish/subscribe transport at Yahoo! Europe. Comfortable as both an architect and a developer, he combines language and network programming expertise with practical code-generation techniques and a long-standing interest in programming language architecture (author of an online book on the topic). Based in North Hertfordshire, he continues to deliver pragmatic, elegantly engineered solutions while enjoying low-level systems and language design challenges.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Microbiogy and Virology, BSc, Microbiogy and Virology at University of WarwickA-Level Biology, Chemistry and Physics, A-Level Biology, Chemistry and Physics at Whickham Comprehensive School
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Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
billhails/MuseScore-plugins
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
Various MuseScore2 plugins that people might find useful
Contributions:56 commits, 14 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 10 months
pluginmusescore2chordstuningvelocity
billhails/SabakiThemes
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
A collection of themes for the Sabaki Goban
Contributions:17 releases, 64 commits, 48 pushes in 2 months
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