John Hill
Principal Software Engineer at Sagebionetworks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Hill is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with 15 years of experience building enterprise-grade Java systems and services. He brings deep expertise in Java, Spring (IoC/AOP), J2EE, JMS, PL/SQL and test-driven development, and has spent the last decade shaping backend architecture and integrations at Sage Bionetworks. His background in cellular & molecular biology with a bioengineering and mathematics emphasis gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective for data-driven and research-oriented software projects. Comfortable with both database-heavy stacks (MySQL, Oracle) and middleware (Tomcat, WebLogic, JNDI), he focuses on reliable, scalable web services and NLP/NER tool integration. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design, rigorous testing, and translating complex domain requirements into maintainable systems.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Cellular & Molecular Biology with an emphasis in Bioengineering and Mathematics, B.S., Cellular & Molecular Biology with an emphasis in Bioengineering and Mathematics at Fort Lewis College
Github Skills (38)
json10
pojo10
json-schema10
django10
gwt10
java10
api10
rest10
rest-api10
schema10
server-side10
aws-organizations9
applet9
aws-services9
sage9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
john-hill/Synapse-Stack-Builder
Apr 2015 - Mar 2025
Project for building a complete Synapse Stack
Contributions:318 pushes, 70 branches in 10 years
pythonsynapse
Sage-Bionetworks/Synapse-Repository-Services
Jan 2011 - Jan 2023
The Synapse Repository Services project is the home of the JSON REST web services for Synapse.
Contributions:735 reviews, 5300 commits, 2375 PRs in 12 years 2 months
web-servicesjson-restrestrest-apijson
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