Justin Hildebrandt
Director, Software Engineering at Ellevation Education
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJustin Hildebrandt is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15+ years of strategic and hands-on experience, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering at Ellevation Education in Somerville, MA. He combines product-minded engineering—shipping core platform features like DAMs, accounting automation, and SAML integrations—with strong people leadership across startups and mission-driven organizations. His background spans full-stack technical delivery (Golang, Ruby on Rails, React) and operational change at scale, including stabilizing APIs and modernizing build/release processes. Justin’s career also includes atypical leadership as a pastor managing multimillion-dollar capital projects and community programs, which informs his collaborative, mission-focused approach to teams and stakeholders. Known as a pragmatic change agent, he excels at translating complex cross-organizational challenges into transparent, maintainable systems. He holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon and an MDiv from Boston University, blending technical rigor with human-centered leadership.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical & Computer Engineering Engineering & Public Policy, BS Electrical & Computer Engineering Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Divinity (MDiv), Master of Divinity (MDiv) at Boston University
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (5)
edtech9
double3
finance3
ruby3
accounting2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jhilde/studentinsights
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:73 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
insightseducatorssomerville
jhilde/DonationApp
Apr 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches, 4 issues in 1 year 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.