Michael Hills

Michael Hills is a Senior Software Engineer at Neara, based in Sydney, New South Wales. He has a diverse background in software engineering, with experience spanning various roles and companies.

Career Overview

• Early Career: Michael began his career in 2008 at Ryarc Media Systems as a Software Development Engineer, where he worked on digital signage software and developed a news ticker application. He also served as a Casual Tutor at the University of New South Wales, teaching computing basics through C programming.

• Subsequent Roles: In 2010, he joined Open Kernel Labs, Inc. as an Engineer, focusing on paravirtualized Android systems and developing a virtualized execution environment. From 2012 to 2014, he worked at Posse as a Software Engineer, engaging in web frontend and backend development, iOS app development, and server management. He also trained a development team in Manila during this time.

• Further Experience: Hills continued his career at First Order (2014-2016) and Lexy.io (2016-2018), contributing to various technology stacks and software solutions. He then worked as a Senior Developer at Martin IT until 2019.

• Current Position: Since July 2019, he has been with Neara, where he applies his extensive software engineering skills.

Education and Certifications

Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of New South Wales (2006-2009). He has also completed certifications in "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" and "Machine Learning" from Coursera.

Michael's expertise includes operating systems, full-stack web and mobile development, and recent interests in machine learning and digital signal processing (DSP) .123