Jason Hillier
Independent Engineering Consultant at Self-employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Hillier is an independent engineering consultant and seasoned software engineer with over 25 years in software design, product prototyping, and systems integration, currently based in Seattle. He has deep hands-on experience building scalable SaaS backends and microservice architectures, driving CI/CD automation and platform reliability for growing products. Jason combines software and hardware expertise—robotics, CNC machining and 3D printing inform his work on software-to-hardware interfacing and industrial system integration. He has led product architecture and engineering teams at companies like HeadLight and Promethean and now helps startups and teams turn proofs-of-concept into production-ready services. Outside of work he pursues global travel, outdoor sports, and Latin dance, a curiosity-driven balance that fuels rapid learning and practical innovation.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahComputer Science, Computer Science at Utah Valley University
Github Skills (60)
cnc10
esp-idf10
esp3210
arduino10
fits8
handlers8
pattern7
firmware7
mysql-client7
endpoint7
driver6
cnc-controller6
api6
docker6
docker-desktop6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jasonhillier/ts-repository
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
A basic data repository framework for Typescript. Includes a fluent-style query interface.
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
querydata-repositoryjavascriptfluentfluent-api
paviasystems/headlight-node-sdk
Apr 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 6 months
nodejsnode-sdksdk
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