Greg Hilston
Senior Software Engineer at Found
Sheldon, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Hilston is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML and data systems, currently focused on LLM-driven automation and fraud decisioning at Found. He combines deep ML expertise (modeling, inference optimization, CV) with hands-on cloud engineering across GCP and AWS, having led large migrations, observability efforts, and production outage resolutions. Greg has repeatedly turned research-grade models into cost-effective, real-time services—once improving inference latency 43x and trimming thousands monthly in infrastructure spend. He mentors engineers, runs hiring interviews, and has taught university CS, reflecting a commitment to technical leadership and knowledge transfer. Based in rural Vermont, he brings both startup agility and enterprise-grade rigor, often using unconventional toolchains (e.g., Chalk for fraud scoring) to solve practical risk and data problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Cum Laude, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Cum Laude, Computer Science at University of New HampshireMaster of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science, Master of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
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Github Skills (200)
epub10
tidyverse10
camera10
api10
slack-api10
zsh10
slack-bot10
game-engine10
kindlegen10
transmission10
linting10
dplyr10
shell10
cli10
switch10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
GregHilston/Simple-Slack-Bot
Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
Simple Python library for creating Slack bots.
Contributions:19 releases, 221 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 8 months
python-libraryapipythonbotslackbot
GregHilston/github-tutorial-calculator
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 8 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 months
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