Tracy Hiltbrand
Co-Owner at Tappy Feet, LLC
La Vista, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolTracy Hiltbrand is a seasoned software engineer and co-owner with over three decades of coding experience and 11 years in current professional roles spanning Peraton and Tappy Feet, LLC. Proficient in Java and C++, Tracy has a track record of modernizing legacy codebases—most recently contributing enum-based refactors to the widely used JFreeChart Java library to improve clarity and type safety. Past roles include performance-focused tooling and build automation (cutting a build from three hours to two minutes) and embedded/messaging systems interfacing with Oracle databases. Comfortable across government, defense, and commercial projects, Tracy combines hands-on implementation with peer reviews and self-driven learning in XML, XSLT, and JSP. Based in La Vista, Nebraska, Tracy brings practical engineering discipline and a preference for maintainable, well-structured code. An understated but consistent contributor, Tracy’s work improves developer ergonomics as much as end-user features.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Utica University
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
java10
enums10
charts9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
fortran6
xcode6
ios6
swift6
user-interface6
datetime-parsing6
java-time6
javafx5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jfree/jfreechart
Jul 2018 - Dec 2021
A 2D chart library for Java applications (JavaFX, Swing or server-side).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 53 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tracy primarily refactored existing code by converting several classes to enums. This involved modifying multiple Java source files, specifically within the `org.jfree.chart` package, to enhance code clarity, maintainability, and type safety. The changes focused on converting classes related to labels, plot rendering, axis locations, and rendering order to Java enums. The commits suggest a focus on improving the structure of the codebase by utilizing modern Java features.
chartsjava2dchartjavafx-applicationschart-library
tracylynne99/jfreechart
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Fork of the jfreechart repo, as of 08-mar-2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 days
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