Ray Hilton is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years building product and data-driven platforms across space tech, health tech, streaming media and fintech. He combines hands-on machine learning and computer vision research (Masters by Research at Swinburne) with practical cloud, embedded and mobile engineering—having led greenfield teams at Airwallex and iFlix and scaled engineering organisations at Whispir. As a fractional CTO and advisor he repeatedly turns early-stage deep-tech ideas into production — from wearable health devices to on-orbit remote sensing and satellite imagery pipelines. He has shipped ML systems in constrained environments (mobile, embedded and satellite) and operationalised data platforms on AWS and Azure using modern infra-as-code practices. Not obvious from his titles: he applies "reverse-Conway" team design to restructure organisations for greater delivery autonomy and alignment. Based in Melbourne, he blends academic research in space domain awareness with pragmatic startup execution and technical strategy.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computing, BSc (Hons) Computing at The Open University
Masters by Research Machine learning supercomputers and astronomy, Masters by Research Machine learning supercomputers and astronomy at Swinburne University of Technology
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