George Hinkel

Software Engineer

Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience in 80/20 backend/frontend development, primarily using Java and TypeScript. I have engineered solutions across a diverse set of industries including financial services, defense, and supply chain logistics. My experience ranges from deploying time-sensitive command and control systems in classified environments to architecting high availability cloud services (>10k TPS) for global regulatory compliance.

Work

Ender

Ender - "The Operating System of Real Estate"
Software Engineer
Austin, TX

Fullstack development in Java (Spring Boot) and TypeScript (React).

  • Maintained Java Spring Boot backend and React TypeScript frontend services.

  • Used LLM code generation to accelerate development of SQL queries, TypeScript frontend, and Java backend code.

  • Managed CI/CD pipelines via Github Actions using on-prem runners.

Amazon

Amazon Fulfillment Technology - Supply Chain Compliance
Software Engineer
Austin, TX

Fullstack development in Java, Python, and TypeScript on the AWS platform using AWS CDK.

  • Built and maintained high throughput Java services (>10k TPS) on AWS. Integrated SageMaker ML models into production traffic, using shadow testing to validate ML results against the previous rule based methods.

  • Architected cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK (Infrastructure as Code) to manage EC2/ECS containers, Lambda functions, and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Designed a single-table DynamoDB schema to handle complex domain configuration data.

  • Created a configuration management web app with a Dockerized Java backend and a TypeScript/React frontend.

  • Built internal CLI tools in Go and Python to automate service tasks and interactions.

  • Set up data streaming pipelines using Kinesis, Glue, and Athena to analyze test results and service metrics.

Lockheed Martin

Advanced Development Program (Skunk Works)
Software Engineer
Fort Worth, TX

Software Development for systems of systems interoperability (STITCHES) on DARPA's SoSITE program.

  • Developed critical system integrations enabling communication between legacy hardware (Link 16) and modern protocols (Kafka/REST/gRPC).

  • Built a prototype of a Java-based language server and CLI tools (Bash/Python) to improve developer experience for the custom STITCHES DSL.

  • Implemented automated code generation pipelines using Swagger/OpenAPI to create client libraries for REST and Kafka interfaces.

  • Managed CI/CD workflows in GitLab CI, creating Dockerized build environments for the STITCHES toolchain which greatly improved portability.

First Command Financial Services

Microservices Development
Software Engineer
Fort Worth, TX;

REST microservice backend development for financial advising software using Open API in .NET Core and Framework.

  • Migrated monoliths to C# microservices and integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM.

  • Led effort to migrate a key microservice from .NET Framework to .NET Core.

  • Automated testing using NUnit and Moq.

Education

Projects

Resume Site and CI/CD Pipeline

DevOps Engineer at Self
application

Automated resume artifact generation from JSON Resume spec and version-controlled resume data

  • Establishes a "Single Source of Truth" using the JSON-Resume specification.

  • Builds Docker images via GitLab CI to generate PDF, DOCX, and HTML versions automatically.

  • Deploys ephemeral test environments on Merge Requests for validation before production release.

  • Optimized pipeline caching to minimize build minutes and latency.

  • Maintains public deployment code while keeping personal data private via multi-project pipelines.

  • TypeScript
  • GitLab CI
  • Docker
  • JSON-Resume

Skills

Languages & Backend

  • Java (Spring Boot)
  • TypeScript (React)
  • Python (Pandas)
  • AWS CDK
  • SQL
  • C# (.NET Core)
  • C++
  • GoLang

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS (Lambda/ECS/DynamoDB)
  • Docker + Kubernetes
  • CI/CD (GitHub/GitLab)
  • Linux (Fedora/Btrfs/RHEL)
  • SageMaker (ML Ops)

Workflow & Tools

  • System Design
  • LLM-Assisted Dev
  • Datalog
  • Git
  • Jira