Portfolio: Ian Hill - About Me

Ian Hill

Site: http://www.buymeasoda.com/
Email: hello@buymeasoda.com

Senior Principal Front-End Engineer - Atlassian

Senior Principal Front-End Engineer for Atlassian UI Platform. Responsible for technical leadership, front-end strategy, team and organisation level planning, and mentorship of principal and senior engineers across front-end engineering and design system teams. UI Platform provides shared front-end infrastructure and solutions for Atlassian products including Jira, Confluence, Trello and Bitbucket. Systems include the Atlassian Design System, UI component libraries and shared application frameworks, front-end server and build / deployment pipelines, developer tooling, code and design standards, front-end monitoring, performance and analysis systems.

atlassian.com

Tech Lead / Front-End Engineer - Instagram

Tech Lead and Front-End Engineer at Instagram. Implementing product features and user interfaces for Instagram Insights using React Native in the main iOS and Android apps. Creating compelling and high quality user experiences for Instagram’s community of 25 million businesses and 800 million monthly active users.

instagram.com | business.instagram.com

Front-End Engineer - Facebook

Front-End Engineer at Facebook. Implementing features and user interfaces for Profile and Timeline on the Facebook web site and mobile apps. Developing efficient and reusable front-end systems that are performant and scalable. Collaborating with product designers, product managers, and software engineering teams, delivering compelling user-facing products to Facebook's over 3 billion monthly active users.

facebook.com

Lead Developer - Wotif (Expedia)

Lead Developer for Wotif (Expedia) Asia-Pacific web teams building the company's primary customer facing web and mobile products. Responsible for technical direction, product engineering standards, front-end development, user interface design, project planning, and management of front-end and back-end developers.

wotif.com | lastminute.com.au

Senior Developer – Dark Blue Sea Limited

Senior Developer for Dark Blue Sea’s suite of domain registrar and portfolio management web products including Fabulous (domain registrar), Fabulous Domains (domain sales), Domain Distribution Network (domain sales API) and internal customer support systems. Designed and produced marketing collateral for product launches, trade shows and promotional campaigns.

fabulous.com

Print & Motion Graphics Designer – Purple Furr Screen Arts

Design and production of music video and motion picture film graphics, video post production, art department set graphics, music and theatre event projection visuals. Projects include work for Warner Music, Australian Film Commission, Showtime, Brisbane Powerhouse and Livid Festival.

Web & Print Designer / Developer - Buymeasoda

Freelance print design and web development for music industry clients producing album artwork, gig posters, band websites, press kits and promotional marketing material. Artists include Powderfinger, Pete Murray, Andrew Morris and Palladium.

Web Designer / Administrator - Secret Service Artist Management

Design, development and administration of the official Powderfinger band web site (powderfinger.com). Awarded: Jury prize - Australian Online Music Awards 'Best Australian Artist Site' - Powderfinger.com (2000 & 2001)

• Highly skilled full stack developer with solid client and server-side expertise
• Advanced JavaScript, React and React Native app and web development experience
• Extensive experience with large scale systems and experimentation platforms
• Strong practical knowledge of web standards and browser/platform testing
• Creative and technical production experience in mobile, web, print and film
• Very proficient with design system and component library usage at scale

Diploma - Multimedia

Southbank Institute of TAFE

Bachelor of Information Technology

Griffith University (Foundation year)
RMIT University (2nd year)

Certificate III - Film and TV

Southbank Institute of TAFE

Certificate II - Fine Art

Southbank Institute of TAFE

Jury prize: Australian Online Music Awards

'Best Australian Artist Site' - Powderfinger.com (2000 & 2001)

PICA: Print Industry Craftsmanship Award

'Multimedia Award' - Palladium

AIMIA: Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association

'Best Project Team' (Finalist) - Palladium

Work and personal referees

Available upon request