Ed Hillmann
Principal Software Engineer at Boeing Defence Australia
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Hillmann is a Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing and delivering mission-critical applications, currently leading technical efforts for Boeing Defence Australia after shaping next-generation mining platforms at Caterpillar. He blends deep Java expertise (Maven/Ant/Gradle, Spring Boot) with cloud and spatial technologies (Azure, PostGIS) to build scalable, test-driven systems and platform services used across multiple delivery teams. A pragmatic architect and hands-on technical lead, he has driven autonomous processes, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban) to improve quality and speed to market. His background includes embedded and mobile-enabled mining solutions as well as earlier work in Delphi and JSF, giving him rare cross-platform breadth. He also contributes to open-source Java tooling—improving pull-request comment retrieval in the widely used jcabi-github wrapper—demonstrating attention to robust API integrations and test coverage. Based in Queensland, Australia, he pairs mathematical training with decades of practical engineering to turn complex operational needs into maintainable software.
14 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at Boston CollegeGonzaga College High School
Github Skills (7)
javas10
java10
rest-api9
junit8
github-api8
oop7
api7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jcabi/jcabi-github
Mar 2014 - Jul 2014
Java Object-Oriented Wrapper of GitHub API, with a fake implementation of the entire GitHub API (for your tests)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily focused on enhancing the retrieval of pull request comments within the jcabi-github project. Their work involved creating and modifying Java classes to facilitate fetching and iterating through pull request comments. The changes included implementing API calls and query parameters to get the correct data for pull requests, as well as writing tests to ensure the comment retrieval was working correctly. They also addressed review comments by applying changes to the code.
javaapisdkrest-apioop
hildo/azureSamples
Oct 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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