Stephen Hillier
Senior Software Engineer at Planet
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Hillier is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native backend systems using Python, Go, and Kubernetes. Currently at Planet, he architects and implements services that power search and subscription workflows for ingesting hundreds of millions of square kilometers of satellite imagery daily. Previously he built impactful public-sector applications for BC’s water resource professionals, delivering full-stack solutions combining Django/FastAPI backends with Vue.js frontends and geospatial features like Mapbox vector tiles. Trained as a civil engineer at UBC, he brings domain-aware systems thinking to infrastructure problems and a knack for turning complex geospatial and hydrology data into reliable, production-grade APIs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances scalable design with hands-on implementation across the stack.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Civil Engineering at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (107)
env10
api-client10
exporter10
ministry10
python-client10
django10
thin10
api10
planet10
tile-server10
javascript9
mbtiles9
html9
tiles9
prometheus-exporter9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stephenhillier/geoprojects
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
Geotechnical project management platform
Contributions:44 PRs, 55 pushes, 35 branches in 1 year 2 months
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stephenhillier/autostac
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:38 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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