Joel Hill
Senior Software Engineer at Unanet
Sparks, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Hill is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience and a decade-plus track record building scalable web applications, currently focused on Golang and large-scale microservice architectures. He rose through the ranks at a high-growth startup to Staff Go Engineer, leading cross-squad projects that directly contributed millions in ARR while breaking monoliths into resilient distributed systems. Joel pairs strong API design and database expertise with hands-on observability (DataDog, Grafana, Lightstep) to keep services healthy in complex environments. Known for his people-first leadership, he mentors engineers, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes product architecture that benefits customers and teams alike. Based in Sparks/Reno, Nevada, he combines entrepreneurial instincts from running a fantasy-sports app business with passions for crypto, Web3, and betting platforms.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Information Systems, B.S, Information Systems at University of Nevada, Reno
English
Github Skills (6)
coldfusion6
go4
scribe4
oauth4
java3
golang2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
joelhill/cfScribe
May 2011 - Mar 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 10 months
java-libraryscribe-javaoauth2javascribe
joelhill/mysportsfeeds-go
Jul 2018 - Apr 2021
Go library to use MySportsFeeds API
Contributions:23 releases, 66 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 9 months
go
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