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 (47)
sourceforge10
genetic10
csv-parser10
data-structures10
implicits10
csv10
cpp10
clipper10
continuation9
scala9
parser9
sys9
akka-actors9
comparer8
parquet8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rchillyard/Darwin
May 2016 - Aug 2018
Darwin framework (Scala) for Genetic Algorithms (based on Darwin at SourceForge)
Contributions:76 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
sourceforgegeneticgenetic-algorithmsscaladarwin
rchillyard/rchillyard.github.io
Nov 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 years 4 months
reactweb-application
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