Summary
Gary Hillerson is a retired software engineer and entrepreneur with a 45-year career spanning UI development, product-led entrepreneurship, and technical documentation architecture. He founded StyleEase Software to automate academic formatting, built successful docs systems (MadCap Flare → Jekyll) as sole documentation architect at Splice Machine, and consulted for Silicon Valley giants including Apple, Palm, Microsoft, Sun, Google, and TiVo. Trained as a Jungian-informed counselor (M.A., Pacifica), he ran long-term men's groups and co-founded a nonprofit supporting young adults with advanced cancer, blending technical rigor with deep human-centered work. Now based in Seacliff, CA, he has shifted away from profit-driven tech toward volunteer and community-focused pursuits while maintaining a lifetime habit of building tools that simplify complex workflows.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
High School, College Prep, High School, College Prep at Springfield HS
M.A., Counseling Psychology, M.A., Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute
University of California Santa Cruz