Brian Hibma
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Amway
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Hibma is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Grand Rapids with over a decade of experience architecting cloud-native, high-availability systems for global users. At Amway he’s led large shifts from monoliths to microservices and event-sourced architectures, driving Kubernetes/Istio adoption, multi-region serverless auth platforms, and hands-free CI/CD with canary deployments. He combines deep technical craftsmanship with a teacher’s mindset, coaching product teams on team design, release practices, and sustainable delivery for mission-critical services handling millions of logins monthly. Known for prioritizing technical debt and pragmatic technology evaluation, he balances innovation with reliability to keep systems nimble under high stakes. His background in psychology and computer science informs a collaborative leadership style that treats product quality as a team sport.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA Psychology Computer Science, BA Psychology Computer Science at Calvin University
Github Skills (25)
aws-lambda10
azure-functions9
okta9
aws9
serverless-framework9
lambda9
cloud-services9
server-side9
serverless9
serverless-architectures8
google-cloud-functions8
aws-dynamodb8
webpack-loader8
java7
svg6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
briguy202/DoStuff
Jul 2015 - Aug 2018
A little helper utility for doing simple commands
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 1 month
unicornscmdutilitylittle-helpercli
briguy202/grunt-vault
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
gruntgrunt-pluginplugin
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