Hunter Hillegas
Chief Technology Officer at Hanchor LLC
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHunter Hillegas is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer and product engineer with 25+ years of experience building web, mobile, e-commerce, training, AI, and developer-facing systems. He leads Mountain Goat Software’s technology strategy and delivery, owning revenue-critical sites, custom e-commerce, real-time virtual training tools, membership platforms, and AWS/Docker infrastructure with >99.99% uptime. Hunter excels where problems are ambiguous and stakes are real, having led the COVID pivot to virtual training and dramatically accelerated course build times using AI-assisted workflows. His recent focus on practical AI — RAG, MCP, tool calling, agents, and Codex-enabled workflows — has turned automation and AI coaching into revenue-driving product features rather than demos. As a serial founder and product owner, he’s shipped consumer hits like VegasMate (1M+ downloads) and continues to build long-running cross-platform products from iOS to Vision Pro. Based in Santa Barbara, he’s seeking senior hands-on roles that blend developer experience, AI product engineering, and technical leadership for small product teams.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics, BA, Economics at UCSB
Github Skills (76)
docker-desktop10
swiftui10
simplify10
plist10
nova-editor9
colima9
swift9
amplitude9
apple-pay8
background-service8
payment8
google-pay8
storekit8
stripe8
form-fields8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HunterHillegas/HelloMapKitWorld
May 2011 - Aug 2012
Contributions:14 commits in 1 year 2 months
HunterHillegas/iOS-BetaBuilder
Aug 2010 - Mar 2016
MacOS X tool designed to simplify creating and distributing beta releases of iOS apps.
Contributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 7 months
plistswiftiosmacos-xsimplify
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