Nick Hibberd
Co-Founder & CTO at Renterra
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNick Hibberd is a pragmatic engineering leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of Renterra, building modern software for the heavy equipment rental industry. With 13 years of experience and a decade in engineering, he blends hands-on backend expertise (including significant Haskell work) with people-first management and a track record of reducing operational costs and onboarding times. He has led teams and cross-team initiatives at companies like Panther and Formation, delivering ephemeral environments, serverless cost reductions, and predictable customer onboarding from days to hours. A practical architect who moves systems to production, Nick has contributed to the well-regarded amazonka AWS SDK for Haskell, showing deep familiarity with cloud integration and library maintenance. He favors high-trust teams with clear ownership and fast feedback loops, and brings a knack for turning complex infrastructure problems into repeatable developer tooling and automation. Based in Chicago, he pairs startup grit with enterprise-scale reliability practices to ship impactful, measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Software Engineering at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)St Joseph's Nudgee College
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Github Skills (12)
http-client10
aws10
http-conduit10
haskell10
aws-sdk10
software-update9
versioning9
versioninfo9
routes6
rails-engines6
mount6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
brendanhay/amazonka
Sep 2015 - Aug 2019
A comprehensive Amazon Web Services SDK for Haskell.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `amazonka` SDK, a Haskell library for interacting with AWS services. Their contributions include fixing a retry mechanism, adding support for multiple versions of http-client and http-conduit, and adjusting code to support different versions of the http-client library. The user also addressed compatibility issues and upgraded the library to support newer versions of the base libraries. Furthermore, they updated the code for version releases across multiple dependent libraries.
haskellamazonsdkweb-servicesamazon-web-services
nhibberd/dotfiles
Jan 2013 - Mar 2022
Contributions:168 commits, 84 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 3 months
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