Nicholas Hilbert
@nicholashilbert
I've been a full-stack dev for 10+ years and I build things on the side and runs a home server lab for fun.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I'm a senior software engineer based in St. Louis with 10+ years of experience across the full stack, having worked everywhere from early-stage startups to Boeing and Sandia National Laboratories. My background spans cloud architecture, geospatial mapping, security-sensitive environments, and building RESTful APIs and CI/CD pipelines that teams actually rely on.
Lately I've been focused on weaving AI-assisted development into my day-to-day work, including agentic workflows, MCP servers, and tools like Claude Code and AWS Bedrock. At 1904Labs I built a Microsoft Teams AI summarizer bot on AWS and have continued pushing that direction into my current role at Omni Federal.
Outside of work I run a home server lab and build side projects, usually somewhere in the AI tooling and developer productivity space. I'm the kind of engineer who picks things up independently and ships them, whether that's solo-maintaining a government timekeeper bot during a shutdown or reverse-engineering an FPGA board at a national lab.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Software Engineer
Omni Federal
Sep 2025 - Present (7 months)
Independently maintained and enhanced a timekeeper bot, delivering new features and resolving issues while operating as the sole developer. Built full-stack geospatial mapping features using React, Java Spring Boot, and SQL, including an admin management page.
Senior Software Engineer
1904Labs
Mar 2022 - Sep 2025 (3 years 6 months)
Designed and implemented RESTful APIs to manage and configure Apache NiFi clusters. Built a Next.js/React UI aligned to UX specifications and developed a Microsoft Teams AI summarizer bot on AWS using Lambda, S3, and Bedrock.
Senior Software Engineer
9Line911 LLC
May 2021 - Mar 2022 (10 months)
Implemented Azure Functions to map company VoIP phones to building locations, enabling faster emergency response times. Automated IP address tracing for in-building IP phones using Linux Bash scripts to streamline device identification.
Software Engineer P3
The Boeing Company
May 2020 - May 2021 (1 year)
Enhanced Boeing’s C++ virtual F-18 training program by integrating infrared sensor capabilities to improve simulation realism. Mentored the team on C++ and Python best practices to raise code quality and maintainability.
Software Engineer (Cybersecurity)
Sandia National Laboratories
May 2016 - May 2020 (4 years)
Built a Python machine learning framework using scikit-learn to detect and analyze anomalous network traffic against known security threats. Developed and enhanced simulation and NLP capabilities using C# and Python (NLTK), and performed low-level reverse engineering of an FPGA board for deeper system analysis.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
Earned a BS in Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, completed in December 2014.
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Master of Science, Computer Science
2017 -
Earned an MS in Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology starting in August 2017.
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