Justin Hilles
Director Of Software Architecture at Digital Media Solutions Group
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Hilles is a hands-on Director of Software Architecture with 14 years of experience designing and delivering customer-facing systems from legacy consolidation to cloud-native call centers. Based in San Diego, he leads cross-functional teams (currently managing 10 developers) to translate stakeholder needs into modular, maintainable architectures that reduced maintenance costs threefold and improved productivity and revenue. He built an in-house Twilio-based cloud call center and a REST-driven augmentation of legacy systems, demonstrating both product-minded engineering and operational cost control. An active contributor to open-source PHP tooling, he improved slug-scoping in the Propel ORM, reflecting deep familiarity with framework internals and back-end concerns. Known as a relationship-focused technologist, he excels at bridging clients, product, and engineering to ship solutions that make people's lives easier.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at Sonoma State University
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Github Skills (7)
php10
propel10
orm10
prop10
testing9
database-design8
regex6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
propelorm/Propel
Apr 2012 - Jun 2012
Current stable (and outdated and unmaintained) version of Propel - Please use v2 https://github.com/propelorm/Propel2 --
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on enhancing the `sluggable` behavior within the Propel ORM framework. Their contributions involved adding support for a `scope_column`, modifying the slug generation process to accommodate scopes, and adding relevant tests to ensure proper functionality. The commits demonstrate the user's effort to improve the slug generation logic and to make it more flexible. The changes reflect a strong understanding of the framework's internals.
database-designmysqlpdodatabasepropel2
justinhilles/tinyvag
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 33 pushes in 9 months
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