Todd Hill
Senior Programmer Writer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Hill is a pragmatic senior programmer writer with nearly two decades of Java/JEE and Spring experience who now authors Java, Kotlin, and PHP SDK documentation for AWS. He blends deep backend expertise—Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Data, Oracle SQL and NoSQL stores—with practical DevOps and AWS deployment experience to make complex cloud APIs accessible to developers. At AWS he has improved and refactored Java code examples in the widely used aws-doc-sdk-examples repo, removing deprecated patterns and adding clearer, more robust samples for S3 and database operations. A former enterprise developer at UW–Madison, he pairs hands-on coding and testing skills (including Groovy/Spock) with long experience in technical documentation and customer-facing support. Recently relocated from Madison, WI to Fort Myers/VA area, he brings a rare mix of editorial rigor from an earlier publishing career and modern cloud-native engineering chops.
3 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, German Language and Literature, Bachelor of Science - BS, German Language and Literature at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMasters, Software Development, Masters, Software Development at University of St. Thomas
Github Skills (9)
aws-s310
javas10
aws10
amazon-s310
java10
s3-bucket10
dynamodb9
amazon-dynamodb9
documentation7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Welcome to the AWS Code Examples Repository. This repo contains code examples used in the AWS documentation, AWS SDK Developer Guides, and more. For more information, see the Readme.md file below.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:210 reviews, 18 commits, 55 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Todd focused on refactoring and enhancing the Java examples within the AWS Code Examples Repository. Their work included changes related to S3 bucket deletion, modifying deprecated methods, and making explicit parameter types in the code. The user's contributions also involved adding new functionalities to the Java examples related to Batch Write items and other database operations, improving documentation clarity, and updating dependencies.
dotnetcpppythonjavascriptphp
tkhill-AWS/aws-sdk-java-v2
Aug 2022 - Apr 2025
The official AWS SDK for Java - Version 2
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 7 months
javasdkaws-sdkaws
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