Riley Hilliard
Data Wranger
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRiley Hilliard is a seasoned software engineer and data wrangler with 12 years of experience building large-scale web platforms and developer-facing products from startup to enterprise. He’s shipped foundational systems at LinkedIn that powered real-time messaging and the feed, architected performance and reliability improvements, and later helped mid-market companies run open-source AI on their own hardware as a staff fullstack engineer at webAI. As a founding engineer at Tesuto (acquired by Fastly) he built interactive network emulation UIs used to safely test global CDN changes, and today he’s focused on making messy public datasets usable via a unified OpenData API. Riley spans the full stack—TypeScript/Electron frontends, Go runtimes, and Python AI services—while also optimizing CI/CD, startup infrastructure, and production performance. He brings entrepreneurial curiosity and hands-on craftsmanship rooted in a teenage love of hacking hardware and networks, and he routinely shares practical technical work and data-driven insights with the community. Based in Austin, he balances product-level architecture with boots-on-the-ground engineering to make complex systems accessible and secure.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
History, History, History, History at San Diego State University
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Github Skills (33)
shipit10
directed-graph9
nodes9
graph-editor8
gif8
javascript8
nodejs8
editors8
ember-addon8
fastboot7
rendering7
meteor7
graph-drawing7
css7
sass7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rileyhilliard/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:11 pushes in 8 years 10 months
paulconfigmigrationshellhomebrew
rileyhilliard/reportcard
Aug 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
widgetreportreport-cardonline-codingtracking
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