Summary
DJ Collier is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications that blend strong UX with measurable business value. He has led and delivered large-scale single-page apps for government and enterprise customers—most notably a 300-page regulatory platform serving 100K internal users and 100K external users with half a million documents—and now drives architecture and delivery at HawkEye 360. Technically grounded in JS, HTML/CSS, and SQL, he also brings production experience in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Elasticsearch, and TypeScript, and regularly designs RESTful APIs and searchable data workflows. A former startup founder who raised seed capital and built consumer-facing products, he combines product intuition with hands-on engineering and team leadership. Based in Virginia, he has a systems engineering and mathematics background from UVA, which informs his pragmatic, data-driven approach to complex application design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Systems Engineering and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Systems Engineering and Mathematics at University of Virginia