Neil Hooey
President And Senior Software Engineering Contractor at Hoodata Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNeil Hooey is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 17 years crafting high-scale search, indexing, and backend systems across startups and large products. He led Search at Shutterstock and built Vine’s distributed search and indexing for tens of millions of MAUs, and more recently architects search and IoT systems as President of Hoodata Inc. Comfortable across Java, Scala, Python and JavaScript, he pairs functional-programming techniques with pragmatic DevOps—Ansible/Puppet, Sensu, Docker, Kubernetes—to own projects end-to-end. He has hands-on experience building cryptocurrency trading platforms, reactive services, and production-grade APIs using ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot and TestContainers. Quick to pick up new tools and languages, he blends strong CS fundamentals with a track record of shipping resilient, observable systems for both consumer-scale and niche enterprise use cases. Contact: nhooey at Gmail for consulting.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Markham District High SchoolBachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
client-library10
ecosystem10
hashicorp10
uchiwa10
terragrunt10
hcl10
terraform-provider10
assemble10
python10
terraform10
ssh10
docker-compose10
process-mining10
mysql10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
nhooey/config
Mar 2011 - Jan 2022
Contributions:94 commits, 30 pushes in 10 years 11 months
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