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<h1 id="trystan-hill">Trystan Hill</h1>
<p>Redlands, CA • trystan.hill@gmail.com • 818-826-3308<br />
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trystanhill<br />
GitHub: https://github.com/teehill</p>
<h2 id="summary">SUMMARY</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2 id="core-skills">CORE SKILLS</h2>
<ul>
<li>Cloud &amp; Infrastructure: AWS, cloud governance, workload account
management, cost optimization<br />
</li>
<li>DevOps &amp; CI/CD: GitHub Actions / Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins,
SaltStack, automated deployments</li>
<li>Backend Engineering: C#, Python, Java, SQL Server, PostgreSQL,
MySQL<br />
</li>
<li>Frontend: ReactJS / Next.js, HTML/CSS/JS</li>
<li>Strengths: automation-first mindset, refactoring, performance
tuning, cross-team collaboration, API design &amp; review</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="experience">EXPERIENCE</h2>
<h3 id="edgecast-senior-software-engineer">Edgecast — Senior Software
Engineer</h3>
<p><strong>08/2016 – Present</strong> - Member of the Cloud team
supporting hundreds of workload accounts, driving governance, security
posture, and company-wide cloud cost reductions.<br />
- Responsible for the CDN’s Customer Portal infrastructure and CI/CD,
improving performance and reducing cloud spend.<br />
- Automated the migration of the Customer Portal from bare metal to
cloud, including infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and
service hardening.<br />
- Lead contributor in Edgecast’s API Guild, running API specification
reviews and guiding teams toward consistent, developer-friendly API
standards.<br />
- Earlier DevOps role focused on CI/CD automation, cloud deployments,
and modernizing monolithic systems.<br />
- Deployed telemetry and monitoring that exposed critical performance
bottlenecks, leading refactoring efforts to improving response
times.<br />
- Previously led a Customer Portal feature team, delivering new CDN
configuration products and migrating customers from legacy
versions.<br />
- Regular sprint development using Agile methodologies.</p>
<h3 id="canary-health-software-engineer">Canary Health — Software
Engineer</h3>
<p><strong>08/2011 – 08/2016</strong> - Full-stack development using C#,
ASP.NET, Hibernate, and JavaScript across data access, backend logic,
and client-side features.<br />
- Collaborated with an international engineering team using Agile
SCRUM.<br />
- Partnered with product and functional teams to design and refine
customer-facing solutions.<br />
- Built automation tools including large-scale email outreach systems
and internal operational scripts.<br />
- Supported mission-critical application instances, including emergency
response planning and execution.</p>
<h3 id="epg-technologies-technical-lead">EPG Technologies — Technical
Lead</h3>
<p><strong>08/2006 – 08/2011</strong> - Designed and maintained systems
ranging from Windows services to database-driven server
applications.<br />
- Led development of C# ASP.NET web applications across data, backend,
and UI layers.<br />
- Maintained internal services (SVN hosting, Linux servers).<br />
- Consulted with clients on solution design, architecture, and technical
strategy.</p>
<h3 id="anchor-systems-systems-administrator">Anchor Systems — Systems
Administrator</h3>
<p><strong>02/2006 – 08/2006</strong> - Administered shared and
dedicated RHEL, Debian, and Windows Server environments.<br />
- Performed datacenter work, network upgrades, and hands-on support for
colocated machines.</p>
<h3 id="eftel-pnc-helpdesk-representative">Eftel PNC — Helpdesk
Representative</h3>
<p><strong>2000 – 2003</strong> - Supported corporate and wholesale
customers across all ISP connection types via phone, email, and
in-person troubleshooting.</p>
<h2 id="education">EDUCATION</h2>
<p><strong>Bachelor of Computing</strong> — University of Western Sydney
(2005)<br />
Minor in Networking. Completed a study-abroad semester at California
State University Long Beach on two academic scholarships.</p>
<h2 id="projects-activities">PROJECTS &amp; ACTIVITIES</h2>
<h3 id="ladotnet-organizer-host">LADOTNET — Organizer / Host</h3>
<p><strong>2016 – Present</strong> - Organize and host the LADOTNET
meetup group, facilitating community learning and knowledge
sharing.<br />
- Presented <a href="https://youtu.be/ojYKQESK9KA">Resilience
Engineering with Polly</a></p>
<h3 id="hyperion-json-spec-contributor-reviewer">Hyperion JSON Spec —
Contributor / Reviewer</h3>
<p><strong>2017 – Present</strong> - Helped define Edgecast’s
lightweight JSON specification, balancing conventions with
usability.<br />
- Run API spec reviews to drive organization-wide adoption and
consistency.</p>
<h3 id="intel-make-it-wearable-software-engineer">Intel Make It Wearable
— Software Engineer</h3>
<p><strong>2014</strong> - Member of the finalist team pitching the
Urban Pet Tracker, an IoT behavioral analysis device.<br />
- Developed prototype code using Electric Imp and Intel Edison;
contributed to pitch scripting and presentation.</p>
<h2 id="additional">ADDITIONAL</h2>
<ul>
<li>Languages: C#, Python, Java<br />
</li>
<li>Interests: Programming, cycling, music, historical fiction, yoga,
cats, Rocket League, DevOps, garlic, VSCode</li>
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