John Hillegass
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Hillegass is a versatile technical generalist with a decade of experience building secure integrations and data-rich applications across Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS, and Heroku. He spans front- and back-end stacks—Apex/Visualforce/Lightning, Node.js, Flask, React—and is fluent with both relational and NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Focused on cloud security and governance, he contributes to well-known open-source tooling such as cloud-custodian, adding AWS-specific features and policy-driven actions. Based in Richmond, VA, he combines hands-on engineering with a practical interest in cultivating enterprise security culture and using automation to simplify users’ lives.
11 years of coding experience
python, ruby, visualforce, css, html, apex, javascript
Github Skills (12)
aws-s310
engine10
aws10
amazon-s310
python10
cloud-computing10
rule-engine10
s3-bucket10
security9
infrastructure-as-code9
serverless8
cli8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:44 reviews, 35 commits, 98 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the cloud security and governance rules engine. Their work involved modifying existing code related to AWS services like Glacier and S3, demonstrating an understanding of cloud resource management. They also worked on the core functionality, like the CLI, fixing encoding issues and adding features like replication configurations, public block configuration and filters for tagging. Additionally, they introduced new actions and filters related to the cloud infrastructure management aspects of the project.
cloud-securitydslyamlawscompliance
JohnHillegass/LRN_Basic-CLI-Ruby-Tic-Tac-Toe
Jun 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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