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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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