Mitchell Hillman

mitchellhillman@gmail.com · (608) 322-9118 · Charlottesville, VA · linkedin.com/in/mitchellhillman
Staff Frontend Engineer React · TypeScript · Embedded Platforms · AI-Augmented Engineering · Technical Leadership

Frontend engineer with 14 years of experience delivering consumer-scale web applications and embedded TV platforms across fintech, media, hospitality, and higher education. Owns component library design, microfrontend architecture, and cross-team technical direction. Bridges hands-on delivery and engineering leadership: setting technical direction, earning trusted-advisor status with client engineering leaders, and establishing team-wide AI engineering practices that have produced measurable velocity gains.

Employment History

Telus Digital

Jan 2023 – Present
Senior Software Engineer
  • Led teams of 3–5 engineers delivering embedded web apps across five FOX streaming products and five TV platforms (PS5, Xbox, Tizen, webOS, VIZIO), reaching millions of users; resolved React rendering bottlenecks on resource-constrained hardware and championed real-device testing infrastructure that exposed platform-specific bugs local simulators missed
  • Owned frontend architecture for VA Connects, an Angular education platform for the University of Virginia: scoped and demoed a Contentful CMS proof-of-concept directly to UVA stakeholders (approved and adopted), replaced Bootstrap with a custom component library, and restructured subtest architecture so four engineers could work in parallel against a fixed deadline — described by UVA's Education and Outreach Director as "a radical transformation"
  • Acting Engineering Lead on Venu (PS5/Xbox); drove unowned technical blockers — Microsoft Partner Account, Sony DevKit setup, PlayStation contract — and bridged client and Telus leadership; relationship continuity directly seeded the follow-on FOX One engagement (multi-team web and Android)
  • Recognized as "trusted advisor" by the FOX One TV apps platform lead; rebuilt a stalled engagement by ramping two engineers, landing device-level fixes on Xbox (native keyboard) and Vizio (rendering) that Fox's embedded engineers had not solved, and resetting client communication — engagement extended through end of contract
  • Remediated frontend package vulnerabilities across a Mastercard web application using Acunetix, Sonar, and Snyk; championed and maintained >90% unit test coverage
  • Established team-wide AI-assisted engineering practice on Wyndham Hotels as FE Tech Lead — onboarded a newly composed team to Claude, codified prompt patterns for scaffolding, review, debugging, and documentation, and integrated AI into existing delivery ceremonies; sprint velocity grew ~5x (sub-20 points to ~100 points) and held steady, materially de-risking MVP delivery
  • Mentored ~10 engineers across Telus engagements (2–3 at a time) plus an intern, providing code review, architecture guidance, and career development; advised a client marketing team on Stable Diffusion image generation and LoRA fine-tuning

Bottomline Technologies

May 2019 – Dec 2022
UI Team Lead
  • Designed and maintained a shared UI component library used by 6–12 fintech apps and ~30 engineers; built dual-audience documentation — Storybook for engineers, a separate site for designers and product owners
  • Led a microfrontend refactor that decomposed a monolithic frontend into independently deployable modules; managed 2 engineers to embed an OAuth authentication flow across multiple applications

Room Key

May 2016 – Jan 2019
Lead UI Developer
  • Owned design and development of a complete frontend overhaul for a hotel search platform, migrating from JavaScript to ClojureScript while executing a simultaneous rebrand

Silverchair

Nov 2014 – May 2016
UI Development Manager
  • Managed a team of 6 entry-level engineers building custom-branded frontends for approximately 10 academic journal brands including Oxford University Press, McGraw-Hill, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, JAMA, and the American Heart Association; owned architecture and championed accessibility across the multi-tenant platform

Earlier Experience

Feb 2012 – Nov 2014
UX/UI Developer, CFA Institute (contract) · Web Developer, Journey Group · Front End Developer, Venveo

Skills

Technical React, TypeScript, Angular, Embedded Web (PS5, Xbox, Tizen, LG webOS, VIZIO), Microfrontend Architecture, Component Library Design, Adobe Experience Manager, Storybook, Playwright, Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, Mapbox, CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps), Security Remediation (Acunetix, Sonar, Snyk)
AI and Emerging Tools Claude, Cursor, Stable Diffusion, LLM Prompt Engineering, AI Workflow Automation, fast.ai (model training and evaluation fundamentals), Python

Speaking & Writing

Education

Liberty University B.S., Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication May 2011