Devin Hilly
Lead Engineer at Viam
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevin Hilly is a Lead Engineer in Chicago with nine years of backend and data platform experience, currently heading a five-engineer team at Viam to build data capture, sync, and query capabilities. He has driven SQL and MQL querying integration, storage layout optimizations, and permission-aware query support that turned device telemetry into dashboardable insights. Previously at MongoDB he improved Parquet/BSON conversion performance, reduced memory consumption across products, and contributed bug fixes and test coverage to the official MongoDB Go driver—demonstrating both systems-level performance tuning and open-source craftsmanship. Devin combines hands-on optimization (pprof-driven memory hunts and predicate pushdown) with mentoring and internship leadership, consistently turning complex analytics requirements into reliable production systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Northside College Preparatory High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Yale University
Spanish, English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (9)
databases10
go10
driver10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
database10
go-language9
testing9
golang9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-go-driver
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
The Official Golang driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Devin focused on refining the MongoDB Go driver's functionality. Their work included removing deprecated connect options related to the automatic connection and read preference, leading to improved code maintainability and alignment with the latest MongoDB features. They also addressed a bug within the GridFS implementation and improved overall test coverage. These changes suggest a focus on improving the driver's core functionalities and ensuring data consistency.
golanggolang-librarydriverdatabasemongodb-driver
dmhilly/rdk
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:85 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 4 months
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