Colin Hebert
Director Of Engineering at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolColin Hebert is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience in developer productivity, build and release engineering, and cloud-native infrastructure, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Canva. He has scaled and led large orgs at Atlassian—owning internal PaaS, CI/CD, and developer lifecycle tooling—and held senior engineering leadership roles at Displayr. A hands-on technologist with roots as a Java/JEE/Spring developer and former trainer, Colin blends deep platform engineering knowledge with people leadership. He is an active open-source contributor to prominent projects such as HashiCorp’s Terraform and Packer, Vagrant AWS, and Docker tooling, often improving AWS integrations, Docker networking, and container health behaviors. Comfortable switching between low-level infrastructure changes and high-level organisational strategy, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, automation and developer experience. Based in Sydney, he combines engineering craftsmanship with a history of teaching and shipping tools used broadly across developer ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master Information Technology, Master Information Technology at SUPINFO
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (100)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
mitchellh/vagrant-aws
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Use Vagrant to manage your EC2 and VPC instances.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on enhancing the AWS infrastructure management capabilities within the Vagrant plugin. They implemented support for AWS session tokens, ensuring secure access to EC2 and VPC instances. Additionally, they updated the project to utilize Vagrant's built-in synced folders, improving file synchronization. The user also addressed destruction handling and AMI packaging processes.
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hashicorp/terraform
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:24 commits, 18 PRs, 73 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Colin contributed to infrastructure-as-code practices within the Terraform repository. Their work primarily focused on enhancing the AWS provider, specifically related to EC2 instances, by differentiating security groups for VPC and non-VPC environments. Furthermore, the user implemented changes that improve Docker integration and introduced support for custom networks, thereby broadening the scope of infrastructure management capabilities within the project. They also addressed several minor improvements like EBS optimization and floating IP reassignment.
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