Nick Hingston
Technical Director & Co-Founder at Mothership Software Limited
Winterbourne Earls, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Hingston is a technical director and co-founder with 12 years of professional experience and a background in software engineering from the University of Manchester. He has co-founded and led Mothership Software and Event-Plot, designing scalable SaaS architectures and shipping user-focused features like 3D layouts, interactive maps and real-time collaboration for complex event management. His earlier career includes embedded and systems work at Ericsson and QinetiQ, giving him a strong foundation in performance-sensitive engineering. Nick contributes to open-source projects such as gpu.js, where he has improved cross-hardware correctness through bug fixes and targeted test coverage, reflecting an attention to low-level correctness as well as product UX. Based in Wiltshire, he blends hands-on development with product-level thinking to turn complex spatial and real-time requirements into reliable, user-friendly systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at The University of ManchesterGcse & alevels, Gcse & alevels at Felsted school
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gpujs/gpu.js
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
GPU Accelerated JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 16 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on bug fixes and test case improvements for the GPU.js library. Their contributions involved addressing issues with index calculations and thread assignments on certain hardware, suggesting work related to core rendering logic. Furthermore, the user added test cases to validate functionality across various modes, ensuring the library's compatibility and correct behavior.
mathgpu-programminggpu-accelerationwebglgpu
wearemothership/node-canvas-webgl
Mar 2021 - Feb 2025
Integration of node-canvas and headless-gl.
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years
node-canvaswebglcanvasjavascriptnodejs
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