Jon Hilton
Senior Developer at Practical Engineer (formerly Practical ASP.NET)
Harley, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Hilton is a senior developer and founder with 16 years of experience building web applications, improving engineering workflows, and coaching teams from startups to enterprise. He blends hands-on full‑stack skills (React, Java, .NET/Blazor) with product-minded collaboration, helping organisations remove delivery bottlenecks and ship software that connects people to their goals. As founder of Practical Engineer he’s taught and built tooling for over 1,000 developers, runs two developer communities and a 6,000-subscriber newsletter, and has launched multiple online courses. Recent roles focus on adopting AI to assist coding and code review, plus piloting architectures like BFFs to decouple frontends from complex backends. A lifelong tinkerer who started on C64/Amiga hardware, he brings a practical, pedagogic approach to engineering problems and team productivity. Based in Harley, UK, he’s comfortable switching between coding, coaching and product conversations to get meaningful outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
GCSEs including Maths, English and Science, GCSEs including Maths, English and Science at Priory SchoolA Levels, IT, Electronics, English, Music, A Levels, IT, Electronics, English, Music at Shrewsbury Sixth Form College
English
Github Skills (82)
asp-net-core10
jwt-authentication10
asp-net10
cookie-authentication10
dotnet10
chatbot10
csharp10
chatgpt9
javascript9
linux9
authentication9
windows9
asp-net-core-mvc9
large-language-models9
react9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jonhilt/Angular-2-NET-Core-Weather-Checker
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
Source code for the series on creating a weather checker using Angular 2 and .NET Core.
Contributions:19 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
angulardotnet
Practical-ASP-NET/Practical-Blazor-Components-Examples
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 37 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 9 months
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