Craig Midwinter
Director Of Engineering at Hypergiant
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Summary
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SeniorCraig Midwinter is a results-driven engineering leader with 10 years of hands-on experience who now directs a 50+ person engineering organization from Winnipeg. He built his reputation at Hypergiant as the go-to engineer for bootstrapping new products and scaling teams across space, ML, and data science domains, combining pragmatic full‑stack development with strong DevOps and CI/CD practices. Craig has shipped production microservices, led infrastructure-as-code initiatives, and regularly clears technical blockers while mentoring engineers to accelerate delivery. Earlier work at Pepper.com sharpened his skills across JS, PHP/Laravel, MySQL, Docker, and search/cache technologies, reflecting a pragmatic systems mindset. An active contributor to open source, he extended a Python wrapper for the Domino’s Pizza API to support Canadian markets and flexible payment flows—an example of his attention to real-world integration details. Outside of work he’s known for an unexpected mix of hobbies—cats, curling, and Real Housewives—which speaks to a personable leadership style that blends rigor with approachability.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api10
backend10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
testing8
php6
django-rest-framework6
docker6
laravel6
django6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ggrammar/pizzapi
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
A Python wrapper for the Dominos Pizza API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Craig contributed to the development of a Python wrapper for the Dominos Pizza API. Their work primarily involved adding support for the Canadian market by updating API URLs and functionality. Additionally, they made changes to address the payment method logic, providing an option for debit-at-the-door and updated the version information. These changes demonstrate their focus on expanding the API's reach and streamlining the payment process.
apipizza-apipythondominosapi-wrapper
craigjmidwinter/home-assistant
Dec 2016 - Feb 2022
:house_with_garden: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
Contributions:178 commits, 5 PRs, 158 pushes in 5 years 3 months
raspberry-pipythonhousegardenmqtt
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