Robin Hillyard
Associate Teaching Professor
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRobin Hillyard is an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University who brings decades of software entrepreneurship and research experience to teaching Scala, Spark, and algorithms. He founded and led multiple companies, pioneered variational geometry in CAD, and authored the open-source Darwin framework for evolutionary computation now available in Java and Scala. A longtime advocate of object-oriented and agile methods, he has transitioned into functional programming zealotry while continuing to design object-relational databases and document/workflow systems. His research into encapsulated mobile intelligent agents in the early 1990s led to privacy-focused healthcare systems work at UnitedHealth Group. Based in Boston, he consults on Spark and Scala during summers and combines academic rigor with practical product and open-source delivery.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. (M.A.), B.A. (M.A.) at University of OxfordHigh School, High School at Christ's HospitalPh.D., Ph.D. at Cambridge UniversityMA, MA at Oxford University
French, Italian
Stackoverflow
933reputation
67kreached
50answers
19questions
Github Skills (43)
algorithms10
parser10
algebra10
trigonometry10
pattern-matching10
complex-numbers10
csv-parser10
fuzzy10
akka-actors10
lazy-evaluation10
constants10
implicits10
rational-numbers10
csv10
units-of-measurement10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rchillyard/Gambit
Aug 2019 - Jul 2026
This is a decision tree framework for evaluating game-playing strategies
Contributions:2 releases, 20 PRs, 82 pushes in 7 years
decision-tree
rchillyard/rchillyard.github.io
Nov 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 4 months
reactweb-application
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