Redlands, CA • trystan.hill@gmail.com • 818-826-3308
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trystanhill
GitHub: https://github.com/teehill
Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud governance, cost optimization, CI/CD automation, and large-scale infrastructure modernization. Known for refactoring legacy systems, improving developer experience, and driving organization-wide engineering standards. Experienced across backend development, cloud migrations, DevOps automation, and API governance.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, cloud governance, workload account management, cost optimization
- DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions / Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins, SaltStack, automated deployments
- Backend Engineering: C#, Python, Java, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Frontend: ReactJS / Next.js, HTML/CSS/JS
- Strengths: automation-first mindset, refactoring, performance tuning, cross-team collaboration, API design & review
08/2016 – Present
- Member of the Cloud team supporting hundreds of workload accounts, driving governance, security posture, and company-wide cloud cost reductions.
- Responsible for the CDN’s Customer Portal infrastructure and CI/CD, improving performance and reducing cloud spend.
- Automated the migration of the Customer Portal from bare metal to cloud, including infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and service hardening.
- Lead contributor in Edgecast's API Guild, running API specification reviews and guiding teams toward consistent, developer-friendly API standards.
- Earlier DevOps role focused on CI/CD automation, cloud deployments, and modernizing monolithic systems.
- Deployed telemetry and monitoring that exposed critical performance bottlenecks, leading refactoring efforts to improving response times.
- Previously led a Customer Portal feature team, delivering new CDN configuration products and migrating customers from legacy versions.
- Regular sprint development using Agile methodologies.
08/2011 – 08/2016
- Full-stack development using C#, ASP.NET, Hibernate, and JavaScript across data access, backend logic, and client-side features.
- Collaborated with an international engineering team using Agile SCRUM.
- Partnered with product and functional teams to design and refine customer-facing solutions.
- Built automation tools including large-scale email outreach systems and internal operational scripts.
- Supported mission-critical application instances, including emergency response planning and execution.
08/2006 – 08/2011
- Designed and maintained systems ranging from Windows services to database-driven server applications.
- Led development of C# ASP.NET web applications across data, backend, and UI layers.
- Maintained internal services (SVN hosting, Linux servers).
- Consulted with clients on solution design, architecture, and technical strategy.
02/2006 – 08/2006
- Administered shared and dedicated RHEL, Debian, and Windows Server environments.
- Performed datacenter work, network upgrades, and hands-on support for colocated machines.
2000 – 2003
- Supported corporate and wholesale customers across all ISP connection types via phone, email, and in-person troubleshooting.
Bachelor of Computing — University of Western Sydney (2005)
Minor in Networking. Completed a study-abroad semester at California State University Long Beach on two academic scholarships.
2016 – Present
- Organize and host the LADOTNET meetup group, facilitating community learning and knowledge sharing.
- Presented Resilience Engineering with Polly
2017 – Present
- Helped define Edgecast’s lightweight JSON specification, balancing conventions with usability.
- Run API spec reviews to drive organization-wide adoption and consistency.
2014
- Member of the finalist team pitching the Urban Pet Tracker, an IoT behavioral analysis device.
- Developed prototype code using Electric Imp and Intel Edison; contributed to pitch scripting and presentation.
- Languages: C#, Python, Java
- Interests: Programming, cycling, music, historical fiction, yoga, cats, Rocket League, DevOps, garlic, VSCode