Summary
Eric Hibbs is a versatile senior software engineer and product-focused technologist with 11 years of experience building everything from infrastructure and search backends to animated front-end experiences and AI-driven vector interactions. Currently leading AI & Innovation at Kontakt.io, he blends hands-on engineering with product and design skills—moving fluidly between TypeScript/Next.js stacks, NX monorepos, Elasticsearch, and AI tooling like ChatGPT and PGVector. His background includes leading migrations, performance tuning, and architecting scalable microservices for enterprise clients (Nike, Fortune 50/100), plus founding-engineer experience that shaped product roadmaps and developer conventions. Eric is also a motion-design practitioner who creates animations, tutorials, and interactive Figma systems, a detail that informs his pragmatic yet user-centric engineering choices. He’s known for raising team velocity through reusable patterns and mentoring, and for turning complex POCs into production-ready systems that ship frequently.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Texas State University-San Marcos