Douglas Hilpipre
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Hilpipre is a Senior Principal Solution Architect based in Chicago with over 30 years in software engineering and a focused practice in object-oriented design since 1995. He brings deep expertise in Java/J2EE, WebLogic, application performance monitoring, and C++, having led field instrumentation and customer-facing expert services at New Relic to bridge product gaps with bespoke instrumentation. His career spans enterprise APM, professional services, and defense systems work—grounded in rigorous mathematical training and early cryptologic analysis—so he combines precise analytical thinking with pragmatic system tuning. Known for translating complex production bottlenecks into actionable observability and instrumentation solutions, he frequently pairs workshops and health checks with custom plugins to accelerate customer adoption. That blend of hands-on code-level instrumentation and strategic architecture distinguishes him as both a troubleshooting specialist and a long-term platform thinker.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematic Physics, BA, Mathematic Physics at St. Cloud State UniversityMS, Mathematics, MS, Mathematics at Idaho State UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at University of Iowa
English, German
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Github Skills (74)
instrumentation10
kotlin-coroutines10
appender10
coroutines10
java10
observability-data10
kotlin10
newrelic10
java-agent10
mulesoft9
multiline9
mule9
camel-jms9
tibco-ems9
vertx-eventbus9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic-experimental/newrelic-java-voltdb
May 2023 - Jul 2025
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 2 months
instrumentationjavanrlabsnrlabs-datanrlabs-java-verify
newrelic-experimental/newrelic-java-osb-11g
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Provides instrumentation for Oracle Service Bus v11g
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 2 years 3 months
snmpinstrumentationbusoraclesling
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