Michael Hilborn
Director, Platform Engineering & Operations
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Hilborn is a strategic technology leader with 15+ years building and operating large-scale web and cloud platforms across Harvard institutions, currently directing Platform Engineering & Operations for Harvard Business School Online. He blends hands-on DevSecOps and cloud engineering with information security and data privacy stewardship—serving as security/privacy officer and driving measurable audit improvements while managing a $1.5M budget and vendor partnerships. Michael is experienced in aligning multi-year roadmaps, migrating services to SaaS and AWS, and integrating AI/ML into production workloads in collaboration with data and AI teams. An enthusiastic mentor and instructor, he has designed and taught web development curricula and led university-wide initiatives like the IT Academy and cloud migrations. Known for fostering transparent, inclusive engineering cultures, he seeks to scale enterprise operations and bring AI-driven efficiencies to mission-critical learning platforms.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
harmony6
theory5
media-manager5
music-theory5
music4
lti4
bookmarklet3
lms2
canvas-lms2
canvas1
api1
nodejs1
api-management1
edx1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Harvard-ATG/AcademicIntegrityTool
Sep 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Harvard-ATG/workshop-lti-basic
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
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