# Alex Hill

> Senior Platform Engineer building secure-by-default platforms at speed. Azure-focused, Kubernetes-deep, identity-obsessed. AI-native in how I work.

Senior Platform Engineer focused on speedy, secure delivery in an AI-native R&D org.

Speed and security only conflict when the platform makes them conflict. Most of my work is removing that conflict: making the secure path the path of least resistance for hundreds of engineers, then automating the friction out from underneath them.

Day job is shared platform engineering: service mesh, identity modernisation, supply-chain security, regulated-environment resilience, and a GitOps developer platform. Outside the day job I maintain open-source Windows tooling, contribute upstream to vulnerability-management projects, and run a home-lab that doubles as a proving ground for patterns I bring back to work.

Heavy investment in agentic engineering as a force multiplier: multi-agent PR review, MCP servers wired into the dev platform, and a tuned harness of skills that encodes hard-won standards so they survive across sessions.


## Structured data

- [Full portfolio JSON](https://hoobi.io/api/portfolio)
- [OpenAPI specification](https://hoobi.io/docs/json)
- [Swagger UI](https://hoobi.io/docs)
- [CycloneDX SBOM](https://hoobi.io/api/sbom/raw)

## Capability summary

- **Secure by default.** Security is a property of the platform, not a checklist applied to it. Reusable templates, identity baked into deploy pipelines, supply-chain controls on by default. The secure path is the path of least resistance.
- **Speed is a property of quality.** Teams ship faster when the platform removes the steps where decisions used to be made. GitOps, validated templates, opinionated defaults. You earn the speed by making the right thing the easy thing.
- **Identity-first.** Most platform problems are identity problems wearing other costumes. Get identity right and the blast radius shrinks, the audit trail clarifies, and the engineers downstream stop needing exceptions.
- **Regulated-environment fluency.** Regulated builds are not a tax. They are a discipline that pays off in every environment if you let them. Designing for FedRAMP shapes how you think about commercial too.
- **AI-native engineering.** I run multi-agent code review on my own pull requests, drive operational work through tenant-scoped MCP servers, and maintain a layered skill library that captures hard-won conventions across sessions. The agents do the routine work the humans already agreed on so the humans can spend time on the judgement calls.

## Contact

- email: alex@hoobi.io
- github: https://github.com/hoobio
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-h-905a8990/
- website: https://hoobi.io