Tobias Hill
Software Developer
Phone
+46709553115
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Intro
I am a curious guy who loves learning / building new things. Ever since the 8-bit-era I have built software and have also done some 25 years as a software consultant for various clients in various roles. During that time a bunch of hobby software projects also saw the light of day.
As a software developer I ...
- ... am a strong proponent of minimalism (as in simplest viable solution ... always).
- ... prefer to drive development from hypotheses close to the business. Measurable small steps.
- ... have a strong focus on getting things done and the stamina to take it all the way from a fragment of an idea to a release or deployment.
Endorsements
What some people say
01
Tobias is one of a few developers who really add a lot of value for a company. This due to his strong technical skills combined with a very strong business focus too. To us he has been immensely valuable and appreciated.
- Håkan Reutman, CTO, 24hNetwork/Entraction
02
I worked together with Tobias on an online poker platform. Tobias was the team leader, always pushing the team to the next level agility-wise and making sure the team was always on track and focusing on the most important issues for the stake-holders. On a more technical level, Tobias knows everything you'll ever need to know about TDD, OO design and agile methodologies and is an excellent software developer. Highly recommended!
- Manuel Palacio, Consultant, HiQ
03
Working with Tobias to create Reco.se was a project that took us from zero to hundreds of thousands of users and response times from several minutes to a few hundred milliseconds. Tobias made the team great with his his advanced technical skills and never-ending search for ways to optimize our efforts to create a better system. To my mind Tobias is simply one of the best software developers I have seen (and had the pleasure to work with!). I would happily work with Tobias again.
- Fredrik Espinoza, CTO, Wiky Ventures AB
04
Tobias entered the team early, eager to change the mindset of traditional theories and concepts. Tobias is passionate about creating business value and has developed himself and the rest of the team to always choose the most valuable solution for a problem. He puts a lot of pride into his work as a "craftsman" but remains sensitive to input. Honestly, it's been a true joy to work with Tobias and I would love to work with him again.
- Tobias Basilius, Founder, Reco.se
Expertise
01
Agile system development
02
Machine learning
03
Performance & Concurrency
04
DDD & modelling
05
Micro-services, Elasticity, Redundancy & Resilience
Experience
A rainy day in 2023
MINI PROJECT
System developer
A bit frustrated over the fact that people in general do not know when the sun can help your body produce vitamin D I wrote a single purpose site to help. It will tell when the sun is at elevations during a day which makes vitamin D generation is possible. If at all.
2021 – Ongoing
SBAB
System developer
Digital signing + Document generation / handling. Spring Boot, Java, Kafka, React, Javascript, Oracle DB etc.
2020 – 2021
Best Ways To
System developer
Building a Q'n'A-site on AWS for fun & learning - Best Ways to. AWS, Elastic Beanstalk, Cognito, S3, Elastic Search, Open Street Map, Mapbox, Spring Boot, Java, Javascript, UX/Design, Code, Deployment pipelines, Docker etc.
2019 – 2020
SBAB
System developer
A migration project where old systems were replaced by microservices. Spring Boot, Java, Oracle DB, SAP
2019
Tailworks AB
Research / Development
A few months were devoted to picking up on Machine Learning. Some of the result can be found in this blog on machine learning as well as in these public repos, neuralnet & mnist example.
1996 – 2018
Citerus
Consultant, COO
Co-founded Citerus in 1996. Did consultancy work most of the time (see some of the assignments below). Took operational responsibility during the last 3 years which in essence boiled down to recruitment, sales and servant leadership.
2014-2015
Payzone
System developer
By cutting a transaction heavy monolithic application into micro services elasticity, resilience and redundancy (among other things) were attained. Spring Boot, Netflix-Eureka / -Ribbon / -Hystrix / -Feign etc..
2014
Agila Sverige
Speaker
Title: Att bli klar! ("Getting done!").
The 10 min talk can be seen
here.
2014
iOS-game: Wordbrain
System developer, Designer
Built (as a hobby project) an iOS game called WordBrain. The game reached number 1 on the grossing list in the App Store (within the sub-category Word-games) in more than 100 countries. Titanium Appcelerator, Micro Services, Drop Wizard, Java, Mysql etc.
2014
Jfokus
Speaker
Title: Lessons learned Building an iPhone multiplayer game with a Scala CQRS backend.
2011-2014
Svenska Postkodlotteriet
System developer
Built an application firewall with an exploratory hypermedia rest API exposing selective parts of various backend system for third parties and web- and client-applications. Spring framework, Jersey, Concordion, Maven, SVN, Git, TeamCity etc.
2011
iOS-game: Paintfeud
System developer, Designer
As a hobby project I built an iOS game called Paintfeud. Titanium Appcelerator, Javascript, CQRS, MongoDB, Event sourcing, Scala etc.
2010-2011
H&M
System developer
Rebuilt the e-commerce website of H&M. Spring framework, Hybris Suite, Mockito, JUnit4, SVN, TeamCity etc.
2007-2009
Reco.se
System developer
Built the consumers recommendation/rating website reco.se. Seam, EJB3, JPA/Hibernate, Hibernate Search, Resteasy, Lucene, JSF/Facelets/Richfaces, JQuery etc.
2005-2007
Entraction / B2B Poker
System developer, Teamlead
Project 1: Scale-out of poker platform from single instance till
distributed.
Project 2: Quality enhancing efforts. The company grew quickly and
new methods
were introduced to keep up quality and speed.
Project 3: Scalable poker-table clients. If the user can play on
several tables
simultaneously the rake per time unit increases.
2003-2005
H&M
System developer, Teamlead
(details on request)
2002
SF Bio, Tre
Technical project lead
(details on request)
2001
Mogul.com
System developer
(details on request)
2000-2002
Centralbadet i Stockholm AB
System developer, Project lead
(details on request)
2000
Tieto Enator, Stockholmsmässan
System developer
(details on request)
1999
Passagen
System developer
(details on request)
1999
SF Bio
System developer
(details on request)
Education
1995 – 2000
M.Sc. Information Technology
Uppsala Univeristy
Uppsala
Strong focus on programming & mathematics. Masters thesis conducted on KDD in Tokyo.
Courses & certifications
- Domain Driven Design - 2006, Eric Evans
- Fearless Change – Introducing and sustaining changes in an organization, May 2005, Linda Rising
- An introduction to Lean Software Development, Oktober 2004, Mary Poppendieck
- Certified Scrum Master, December 2003, Ken Schwaber
- Sun Certified Programmer for the Java™ 2 Platform, 2001
- Programming w enterprise javabeans (SUN)
- Introduction to Ruby on rails
- Introduction to Spring
- Fitnesse
- XStream for mockdata
- TDD
- State is not evil
- Security model in J2EE
- Web Services and J2EE
- Communicating prototypes
- Domain modelling
- Agile methods
- Unified Process och UML
- Data security
METHODS, TOOLS, FRAMEWORKS
(for what it's worth)
Misc
Application servers
Frameworks and tools
(among many other things of course ... and the list could need some pruning too)
- Scrum, XP, Lean software development
- DDD, design patterns, OOP, AOP
- Java, J2EE/EJB
- HTML, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, Ajax
- Groovy
- Swing, JSP
- JDOM/XML
- JDBC, SQL
Application servers
- JBoss, Tomcat, Jetty, WebLogic Server, Orion application server, Oracle9iAS
- Hybris E-commerce
Frameworks and tools
- Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, Seam
- Netflix-eureka, Netflix-ribbon, Netflix-hystrix, Netflix-feign
- Titanium Appcelerator
- Grails
- Mahout
- JPA/Hibernate
- Resteasy
- JMS
- Hibernate Search, Lucene
- JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, JMock, Dynamock, Easymock, DBUnit, Cactus
- TestCase, Concordion
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Middlegen, Xdoclet, JunitDoclet
- Teamcity, Hudson, Maven, Luntbuild, Ant, Ivy, JDepend
- Subversion, Perforce, CVS, Sourcesafe
- MySQL, MSSQL, C3P0, JTDS
- JSF/Facelets/Richfaces, Velocity, Freemarker, JFreeChart, Thinlet
- iText, POI, JGroups, Mina, EHCache
(among many other things of course ... and the list could need some pruning too)
INTERESTS
- Machine learning
- Programming
- CrossFit™
- Trail-running
- Cooking
- Craft beer
- Typography
- Photography
- Nature & Light