Preston Hill
Forward Deployment Engineer at HOAi
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPreston Hill is a Full Stack Web Developer and Forward Deployment Engineer with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging mechanical engineering, robotics, and MERN-stack web development. He combines hands-on field expertise—improving Starship robot health from 75% to 100% within a month and maintaining high fleet availability—with software skills honed at UT Austin’s Coding Bootcamp and through full-stack projects like ParkPicker. His background in service engineering and laboratory instrumentation at Anton Paar sharpened his customer-facing troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and technical communication. Comfortable in fast-changing environments, Preston has built tooling and automation (from a student IT dashboard to drone prototyping for an Intralox patent) that speed operations and reduce downtime. He’s motivated by learning and adaptability, having coded in diverse contexts since 2007 and now applying that curiosity to deploy reliable systems at the intersection of hardware and software.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Full Stack Web Development, Certificate Full Stack Web Development at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering at Rice UniversityUniversity of California, Los AngelesLa Porte High School
Github Skills (4)
jquery6
react5
javascript4
directions3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chewy441014/trail-picker
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Search for activities to see which national parks have what you're looking for, and view weather and directions for each potential park.
Contributions:33 reviews, 70 commits, 57 PRs in 1 month
nationalreactparksjquerynational-parks-api
chewy441014/park-picker
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Search for activities to see which national parks have what you're looking for, and view weather and directions for each potential park.
Contributions:27 reviews, 124 commits, 53 PRs in 11 days
nationalreactparksfor-eachpark
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