Summary
Duane Hilton is a Full Stack Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, data-driven web applications and integrations, currently at RLDatix in Salt Lake City. He combines a University of Chicago credential in Data Engineering with deep Python and JavaScript expertise to deliver reliable back-end systems, responsive React frontends, and serverless architectures on AWS. Duane has a strong healthcare technology pedigree—engineering device integrations, EHR connections, and AI-powered clinical tools that supported rapid platform growth and hundreds of thousands of patients. He prizes maintainable, well-tested code and has led migrations, introduced automated testing, and mentored junior engineers. An active open-source contributor, he has improved docs and code for projects across Python, Django, Neovim, and MetaSnake, reflecting a librarian’s attention to discoverability and clarity.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree (MLIS), Library and Information Science, Master's Degree (MLIS), Library and Information Science at San José State University
Credential, Data Engineering, Credential, Data Engineering at University of Chicago