James Hill
VP, Product at Buildkite
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Hill is a product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building resilient, data-driven platforms for global organisations. Currently VP, Product at Buildkite and formerly Head of Engineering at The Conversation, he combines product strategy, cloud migrations and security-first operations to keep high-throughput systems reliable and sustainable for newsrooms and CI pipelines alike. He’s driven large-scale data and foundation teams, shipping real-time test-engine processing that handles billions of test executions and improving developer experience across Buildkite’s documentation and platform. Based in Sydney with a UNSW computer science background, James pairs board-level strategy and policy advising with hands-on technical contributions, including authoring key docs and runbooks that make complex platforms easier to operate.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (5)
markdown10
api-documentation10
markdown-it10
documentation10
sso-authentication8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
buildkite/docs
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
The source files for the Buildkite documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:28 reviews, 11 commits, 25 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Buildkite documentation repository. Their work focused on updating existing documentation related to job minutes, test analytics monitors, and the developer plan. Furthermore, they created new documentation for build retention and SSO session duration. The changes involved updating markdown files, replacing outdated information, and improving clarity through the addition of images and links.
buildkite-documentationbuildkitesource-files
conversation/tc-stylelint-config
Mar 2018 - Sep 2021
Standard TC sharable config for stylelint
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
eslintconfigstylelintsharablesharable-config
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