Edgar Hilton
Principal Software Engineer at Caseflood.ai (YC W25)
Evansville, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolEdgar Hilton is a Principal Software Engineer and systems architect with eight years of software-focused experience built on a two-decade foundation in controls, manufacturing execution, and real-time systems. He currently leads development of safety-critical, hard real-time evacuation hardware and AI at SafeEVAC while advising YC-backed Caseflood.ai on scalable AI reception systems. Edgar has driven cloud migrations, microservice integrations, and AEM/Adobe Sign extensions at enterprise scale and has deep hands-on experience across C#, Java, RTOS, embedded electronics, and AWS/Terraform. His background includes founding technical startups and leading MEIS/MES initiatives for Danfoss Turbocor, giving him rare cross-domain fluency from firmware and PLCs to cloud-native services. Notably, his academic work and early research in high-speed magnetic bearings and control algorithms inform a practical rigor for safety and determinism in autonomous systems. Based in Evansville, Indiana, he blends operational leadership with a persistent appetite for building one-of-a-kind electro-mechanical and AI-enabled products.
7 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Del Rio High SchoolBachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering Dynamics Kinematics and Control, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering Dynamics Kinematics and Control at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Mechanical Engineering High Speed Magnetic Bearings and Controls, Master's degree Mechanical Engineering High Speed Magnetic Bearings and Controls at University of Virginia
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (27)
game-engine10
open-source10
game-development10
audio-recorder10
godot9
audio-player8
recorder7
location7
location-tracking6
flutter6
player6
battery6
audio6
background-location6
flutter-plugin6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
efhilton/EllieBotBlue
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 59 commits, 54 pushes in 28 days
efhilton/BluetoothJoystick
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch, 6 issues in 20 days
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