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.
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.