Donald Hinton
Volleyball Coach Referee at USA Volleyball
Bradenton, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Hinton is a versatile operations research analyst and former US Army officer with over a decade of experience applying technical analysis to national security, treaty verification, and biometrics policy. He blends hands-on data-driven problem solving from deployments and government contracting with strategic-level treaty and policy expertise developed at RAND and MIT Seminar XXI. Equally at home coaching and refereeing volleyball since 2000, he brings patient leadership and mentoring skills honed instructing JROTC cadets and high school students. An adept C++ backend developer and automation contributor to LLVM/Clang tooling, he has improved diagnostics, debugging support, and clang-tidy checkers—work that reflects a meticulous, systems-level mindset. Based in Bradenton, Florida, he enjoys tackling complex, interdisciplinary challenges that span technical, operational, and human dimensions.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), General Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), General Engineering at United States Military Academy at West PointMaster of Science (M.S.), Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Science (M.S.), Business Administration and Management, General at Central Michigan University
German, French, Russian
Github Skills (15)
compiler10
debugging10
debug10
code-analysis10
compiler-compiler10
c-language10
diagnostic-tool10
clang-tidy10
cprogramming-language10
llvm10
testing10
coding-style9
automation9
automations9
refactoring9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
llvm-mirror/clang
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
Mirror kept for legacy. Moved to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:24 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Donald's commits primarily focus on improving the Clang compiler and related tooling. They implemented features for diagnostic tools, enabling breakpoint management for debugging. Furthermore, the user contributed to refactoring code, adding flags to the command-line parser and added support for moving debuginfo tests and disabling a test on darwin when building shared libs. The user demonstrated proficiency in C++, and command-line tool development.
keptwindowsllvmcc-plus-plus
llvm-mirror/clang-tools-extra
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Mirror kept for legacy. Moved to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Donald primarily contributed to the Clang-Tidy tool, focusing on improving code quality and maintainability within the LLVM project. Their work involved adding new checkers, specifically designed to identify and suggest improvements for the use of `cast<>` and `dyn_cast<>` functions in conditional statements. They also addressed the need to convert loops utilizing `const_iterator` to the range-based for loops. Furthermore, the user modified utility scripts related to clang-tidy.
keptwindowsllvm
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