Hugh Boylan
Principal Engineer at Shipt
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolHugh Boylan is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems across AWS and GCP, currently shaping platform and admin tooling at Shipt. He blends hands-on development—from React micro-frontends and GraphQL aggregations to NodeJS and Java APIs—with architecture and migration planning for enterprise clients like Munich Re, T. Rowe Price, and Barrick Gold. Hugh has repeatedly delivered scalable integrations (Terraform, ECS, DynamoDB, Dialogflow) and led retail and partner-facing initiatives, demonstrating a knack for turning legacy systems into iterative cloud designs. Early work ranges from mobile and Unity3D prototypes to large-scale archival ingest pipelines, reflecting broad technical curiosity and practical product focus. Based in Birmingham, AL, he pairs a CS degree from West Virginia University with a history of mentoring and cross-team communication that helps teams adopt robust, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at West Virginia UniversityWheeling University
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Github Skills (200)
csrf10
material-ui10
spid10
solidjs10
redactor10
graphql-query10
json10
nodejs10
dataloader10
material-design10
oauth10
nuxt-auth10
graphql-tools10
stateless10
graphql-schema10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hboylan/peaknode
Jun 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:526 commits in 9 months
shipt/create-react-app
Jul 2019 - Jan 2024
Set up a modern web app by running one command.
Contributions:10 PRs, 79 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years 7 months
reactset-upmodern-web-appmodern-webcreate-react-app
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