Hillary Hartley
Catalyst
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHillary Hartley is a civic tech catalyst and seasoned digital leader with 12 years of experience building user-centered government services and scaling public-sector tech teams. She has led digital transformation at provincial and national levels—most recently as Chief Digital and Data Officer for Ontario and as CEO of U.S. Digital Response—bringing strategy, talent development, and rapid-response technology together to improve services for millions. A co-founder and deputy executive director at 18F, she blends creative direction and community-building with hands-on front-end work (including contributions to the widely known 18F site). Based in Toronto, she now connects civic technologists and organizations through OpenPublic, accelerating collaboration and shared resources across the sector. Known as a “civic tech nerd” on GitHub, she pairs practical UX and front-end craft with deep institutional experience, making complex government systems more humane and usable.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Sociology, BA Sociology at Smith College
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
javascript7
f6
federation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
18F/18f.gsa.gov
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
The 18F website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 16 PRs, 32 pushes in 10 days
Contributions summary:Hillary primarily focused on front-end development, making changes to the website's user interface. Their commits involved modifications to the `index.html` file, including updating Open Graph metadata, reordering and adding slideshow images. The user also streamlined the codebase by removing unnecessary classes and divs and adding a contact form to the website.
federalistcssjavascript18f
quepol/civic.innovator
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 day
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