Owen Hilyard
Graduate Research Assistant
Durham, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolOwen Hilyard is a PhD candidate and graduate research assistant at the University of New Hampshire with nine years of hands-on experience in high-performance distributed systems, network protocols, and systems reliability. He has driven production-grade improvements to DPDK’s test infrastructure—leading DTS migration, modernization, and CI automation—and interned at MongoDB focusing on network stack performance. Comfortable across systems-level languages (C, C++, Rust) and high-productivity stacks (Python, Java, Scala), Owen pairs deep networking knowledge with practical ops skills in Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, FreeIPA/AD, and PostgreSQL. He’s notable for introducing modern tooling and static typing to long-lived open-source test suites, improving cross-vendor CI stability and developer experience. Based in Durham, NH, he blends academic research with real-world engineering, often translating reproducible experiments into scalable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Oyster River High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (31)
programming-language10
modular10
machine-learning10
ai10
max10
mojo10
lua6
kotlin6
java6
benchmark6
csharp5
clang5
cpp5
dart5
polyglot5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EMCAntimatter/hs-programming-class-final
Jan 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
owenhilyard/mojo
Aug 2024 - Feb 2025
The Mojo Programming Language
Contributions:19 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
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