Neil Mayhew
Software Engineer at input-output-hk
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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RockstarNeil Mayhew is a versatile software engineer based in Calgary with 19 years’ experience building server, desktop, and embedded applications on Linux and Mac. He blends systems architecture and algorithm design with a strong focus on efficiency, small footprint, and long-term maintainability, often using Haskell, Rust, C++, and Nix-centric tooling. Comfortable across paradigms—functional, declarative, and object-oriented—he also brings seasoned leadership in project delivery, mentoring, and team-building that elevates collective output. A Haskell and NixOS enthusiast who consults on deployment and packaging, Neil is as comfortable optimizing low-level performance as he is designing clear DSLs and robust developer workflows.
20 years of coding experience
French, English
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
cryptocurrency10
command-line-tool10
jython10
msbuild-task10
catalog10
ecma10
firefox10
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open-data10
nixpkgs10
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
input-output-hk/cardano-ledger-release-tool
Sep 2025 - May 2026
This is a tool that is used by the cardano-ledger team to simplify and enforce releasing and versioning policy
Contributions:2 releases, 6 reviews, 6 PRs in 8 months
cardanoversioning
neilmayhew/nix
Apr 2017 - Mar 2023
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Contributions:5 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 11 months
nixospackage-managerpurely-functional
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