Ian Hills
Principal Software Engineer at DraftKings Inc.
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Hills is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience leading backend and platform initiatives from Somerville, MA, currently modernizing DraftKings’ microservice fleet by migrating .NET Framework on Windows to .NET Core on Linux. He combines deep C#/.NET expertise with cloud and infra skills—AWS, Terraform, Redis, ElasticSearch—and a strong track record in extracting monolith logic into resilient microservices and SDKs. Ian has driven testability and reliability improvements, creating Selenium/Appium tooling and porting fault-tolerance patterns to production systems. He started at DraftKings as the first junior hire and progressed through hands-on roles to architecture leadership, blending implementation grit with strategic technical design. Notably, he pairs platform-level thinking with practical automation (PowerShell, Terraform) to accelerate large-scale migrations and reduce operational risk.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Nashoba Regional High SchoolBachelor of Science in Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (37)
nuget10
rabbitmq10
messaging9
dotnet9
masstransit9
azure-service-bus9
csharp8
application-framework7
dotnet-core7
microservices6
putty6
macos5
vscode5
linux5
windows5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
VoX/battle-tanks
Apr 2013 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 release, 60 commits, 2 PRs in 9 years 3 months
VoX/combatonline
Nov 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:51 commits in 7 months
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