.NET / C#
Backend services, integrations, and background jobs built to run unattended.
Software Engineer · Platform & Release Automation · Agentic Tooling
Brandon J. Hill
Ten years building production web applications, release automation, and the internal tooling other engineers work inside, across .NET, TypeScript, and Azure.
Also building: Hill Peak Holdings, operator-led acquisitions of durable small businesses.
About
I’m a Colorado Springs-based remote software engineer with ten years of full-lifecycle experience. Today I ship user-facing features in a production React/TypeScript imaging platform at Planet DDS (Apteryx Imaging), and own the architecture calls, framework upgrades, and production monitoring and remediation that keep it running on Azure.
Most of what I build is infrastructure for other engineers: automated release pipelines in PowerShell and Azure DevOps, a release framework and audit trail now used across multiple teams, and a custom MCP server that unifies Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps behind a single queryable, agent-facing interface. I also built the data and training pipeline behind our image-quality models, from extraction and de-identification through PyTorch training and evaluation.
Before Planet DDS: enterprise workflow automation at Fiserv, and mission systems in defense and space at Boeing Defense, Space & Security and Harris Space and Intelligence Systems. I’m a U.S. Army infantry veteran with combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. That experience shaped how I work: steady under pressure, process-aware, and committed to doing the basics well.
Outside of work I’m in the mountains, running a local-first home server, or deep in the kinds of stories that explore systems, resilience, and long arcs. Fallout included.
Education
Colorado Technical University
M.S. Computer Science (2016) · B.S. Computer Science (2015)
Security clearance
TS/SCI (inactive since 2020)
Held supporting Boeing and Harris. U.S. citizen; eligible to obtain and maintain.
Military service
U.S. Army Infantryman
2008–2012. Combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan; awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge.
Working style
Remote-first, Mountain Time
Comfortable owning a system end to end and being the person on call for it.
Experience
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Software Engineer
Planet DDS (Apteryx Imaging)
Ship user-facing features in a production React/TypeScript application, owning architecture and technology decisions, framework upgrades, and production monitoring and remediation across Azure App Service. Designed and shipped a custom MCP server unifying Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps into one queryable interface: an agent-facing integration layer over three systems of record, adopted beyond the originating team. Built the automated release pipelines and audit trail now used across multiple engineering teams, plus the data and training pipeline behind our image-quality models.
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Software Development Engineer IV
Fiserv (Account Processing / Enterprise)
Engineered automated C#/.NET Core integrations between HR and workflow platforms, eliminating redundant manual data entry across departments and accelerating delivery timelines. Focused on reliability, automation, and clear operational visibility for enterprise teams.
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Software Engineer 3
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Full-stack Java developer building RESTful microservices for a system modeling space assets, in a process-driven environment that emphasized traceability, CI/CD discipline, documentation, and cross-team coordination.
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Software Engineer 2
Harris Corporation (now L3Harris), Space and Intelligence Systems
System sustainment for mission-critical .NET applications: debugged and enhanced C#, Bash, and batch tooling to maintain uptime across legacy Windows and Linux environments, supporting on-site operations.
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Infantryman
United States Army
Combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge for direct participation in ground combat operations.
Expertise
TypeScript / React
Production feature work in a live web application, framework upgrades and architecture decisions included.
Cloud & Platform
Deploying, observing, and remediating in production, including the incident at the far end of it.
Release Automation & CI/CD
Turning deployments into a repeatable, auditable process instead of a ritual that depends on who is awake.
APIs, Data & Integrations
Interfaces and schemas that are predictable, versionable, and safe to operate.
Agentic AI Tooling
Agent-facing integration layers over real systems of record, built to be queried rather than demoed.
Projects
Planet DDS
MCP systems-of-record server
A custom Model Context Protocol server unifying Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps into a single queryable interface. Cut context-switching and onboarding time; adopted beyond the team that asked for it.
Planet DDS
Release pipeline & audit trail
Automated pipelines that pull Jira data into a CDN-backed system, plus the release framework and audit trail now used across multiple engineering teams, replacing manual documentation and ad-hoc deployments.
Planet DDS
Image-quality model pipeline
Extraction and de-identification of production imaging data, training-set assembly, and training and evaluation of image-restoration models.
Bitway, LLC
Summarized Headlines: Top Stories
An unattended content-generation pipeline running end to end: ingestion, AI tooling, text-to-speech, and rendering. Designed, shipped, and maintained solo.
Independent
Hill Peak Holdings
Operator-led acquisitions of durable small businesses.
Independent
Local-first home infrastructure
A home server I run, back up, and monitor myself: self-hosted services, data ownership, and a low-stakes place to keep the operational habits sharp.
For Brokers
I’m an operator-led buyer focused on durable, cash-flowing small businesses with respectful transitions.
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