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Enterprise architect since 1998. Shipped eCommerce for AT&T, Procter & Gamble, and Ulta. Built 10MinuteMail. Now helping Fortune 1000 teams put AI to work.

I’m Devon Hillard, an enterprise architect who’s been building for the web since 1998. I’ve shipped eCommerce platforms for AT&T, Procter & Gamble, and Ulta, co-founded a hosting company that grew from three guys in a coffee shop to serving the Fortune 1000, and built 10MinuteMail, a service that’s been running for nearly 20 years on pure stubbornness and ad revenue. These days I help Fortune 1000 companies put AI to work at Tribe AI and run Black Magic Consulting, helping companies cut through the AI noise and apply LLMs, agents, and automation to problems that actually matter. I also maintain several open-source projects in the Spring Boot and Cloudflare ecosystems.