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Hillel Wolin

Engineering leader focused on building reliable products, AI-enabled systems, and strong engineering organizations.

I have more than eight years of software engineering experience, including approximately three and a half years in formal engineering leadership. My work has spanned healthcare logistics, financial technology, mobile applications, backend services, APIs, Salesforce, machine learning, platform infrastructure, observability, security, and compliance.

I am particularly interested in turning ambiguous operational problems into clear technical systems and using AI to improve both software products and the way engineering teams build them.

I have served as an Engineering Manager at Cube, an FP&A software platform for finance teams, and as Director of Engineering at Rapid Medical Logistics.

Selected professional impact

  • At Rapid Medical Logistics, I led 10 engineers and 2 designers across mobile, Salesforce, backend, API, and machine-learning-related systems supporting a nationwide healthcare logistics platform with more than 100,000 monthly transactions.
  • Engineering quality and delivery improvements reduced critical defects by 70% and increased team velocity by 25%.
  • I helped lead HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II readiness efforts that concluded with zero audit findings.
  • At Cube, I managed a seven-person engineering team focused on data fidelity, production reliability, customer recovery paths, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
  • Earlier at SS&C, I worked on MFD, a managed financial-data API built with FastAPI, RedisGraph, NetworkX, MongoDB, and Kubernetes, helping reduce API latency by 40%.

Featured projects

A notebook-first course that develops language models from first principles through concrete, executable Python examples.

Engineering focus

  • AI and language-model systems
  • Backend and distributed-system architecture
  • Healthcare and operational technology
  • Developer productivity and AI-assisted engineering
  • Observability, reliability, and incident prevention
  • Technical quality, security, and compliance

Leadership focus

  • Translating ambiguous business problems into executable technical plans
  • Developing engineers and technical leaders
  • Improving architecture and engineering standards
  • Building effective delivery and code-review practices
  • Connecting technical decisions to customer and operational outcomes
  • Creating responsible and measurable uses of AI in engineering

I am especially interested in hands-on engineering leadership involving AI-enabled products, backend and platform systems, and complex operational workflows in healthcare, fintech, and other reliability-sensitive or regulated environments.

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    A notebook-first course that builds language models from first principles through concrete, executable Python examples

    Jupyter Notebook