Summary
Jim Hill is a Staff Software Engineer with a dual MS in Mechanical and Software Engineering and over 15 years of cross-industry experience building and operating cloud-native systems for healthcare, industrial, and enterprise customers. He blends deep infrastructure and SRE expertise—Terraform, AWS, observability and CICD—with hands-on product delivery for frontend and backend services, recently shaping JuliaSim features and multi-tenant platform reliability. Jim has led migrations from .NET monoliths to microservices and search platforms, mentored teams in API and architecture design, and served as an infrastructure lead responsible for SOC2 coordination and developer tooling. His background as a design and applications engineer at heavy-industry firms gives him a practical, systems-level perspective on how software solves real manufacturing and operational problems. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product, security, and ops while keeping releases stable and developer experience smooth. Despite a strong enterprise pedigree, he retains a founder’s mindset from co-founding NavAbility and shipping numerous AWS microservices end-to-end.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Science (M.S.) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Mechanical Engineering at Northern Illinois University