Neil Hastings
Principal Software Engineer at Liftify
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Hastings is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience architecting and delivering complex, enterprise-grade web and CMS platforms, particularly in healthcare and government. He blends hands-on engineering (NodeJS, PHP, React, Python, Drupal) with strategic technical leadership—modernizing large pipelines like va.gov’s content build and leading analytics modernization at Dropbox. A serial builder and operator, he co-founded and exited the HoverCrowd SaaS startup and has repeatedly led platform, DevOps, and CI/CD transformations across AWS, Terraform, and monorepo environments. Neil is an active open-source contributor and community leader in the Drupal ecosystem, having presented at DrupalCon and been selected by the Drupal board to develop content staging solutions. He combines a data-driven, client-focused approach with clear communication that translates complex technical tradeoffs into measurable business outcomes. Based in Indianapolis, he often pairs startup agility with enterprise governance to deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management, BS Management at Purdue University
English
Github Skills (95)
user-feedback10
editor10
product-management10
oms10
member10
sling10
cockpit10
rad10
drupal9
frontend9
crowd8
moodle8
python8
redis-sentinel8
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
indytechcook/va.gov-cms
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Backend CMS for www.va.gov. Frontend repo is at https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/vets-website/
Contributions:311 pushes, 160 branches in 1 year 6 months
cmsgovphpaffairsdepartment
appirio-tech/base-api-nodejs
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
A base server to use a swagger based API using a127
Contributions:28 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
apiserver-basenodejsapi-basedswagger
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