Joe Hillenbrand
Lead DevOps Engineer at Siemens
San Marcos, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Hillenbrand is a Lead DevOps Engineer based in San Marcos, CA with 16 years of hands-on experience across the full software stack and a 13+ year specialty in DevOps and infrastructure-as-code. He builds type-safe, fault-tolerant distributed systems without over-engineering, frequently using Rust, TypeScript/Den o, Pulumi, Kubernetes, and GitLab for production automation. Joe has driven cloud architecture and CI/CD transformations at companies from Elastic to Siemens and led multi-region AWS deployments, serverless-to-Kubernetes migration initiatives, and end-to-end type-safe web platforms. He mentors teams, improves developer workflows, and is motivated by polishing rough edges and solving overlooked operational problems. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the popular Spacemacs editor and maintained clear technical documentation for his own tooling like an fzf UI for systemctl. His background in electrical engineering and deep systems work (Haskell, low-level C, and large-scale test clusters) gives him a rare cross-layer perspective valuable for Staff/Staff+ engineering roles.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Washington
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Github Skills (28)
markdown10
fzf10
configuration-management10
markdown-it10
emacs10
configuration-file10
configurations10
documentation10
bash9
vim9
co9
cli9
script9
tui7
helm7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
joehillen/sysz
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
An fzf terminal UI for systemctl
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:11 releases, 3 reviews, 105 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on improving the project's documentation. Their contributions included generating an initial README file, adding demo examples with asciicasts, providing installation instructions, and detailing project features and requirements. The changes involved formatting improvements, feature descriptions, and providing usage examples. They integrated `bin` to streamline installation as well as modifying the format for the output of the help section.
zshterminal-uibashbash-scriptfzf
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:Developer/Contributor
Developer/ContributorContributions:16 commits, 14 PRs, 145 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributes to the community-driven Emacs distribution Spacemacs, implementing new features and improving existing functionality. Their work includes adding vim-style tab switching, customizing keybindings for improved usability, and addressing obsolete code. They also fix bugs and optimize layer configurations within Spacemacs. These contributions are centered around enhancing the editor's features and user experience.
configurationvimspacemacsemacsemacs-lsp
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