Simon Hibbard
Technology Lead at NHS Blood and Transplant
Stonehouse, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSimon Hibbard is a experienced technology lead with 14 years building and modernising large-scale public-facing software, currently driving development at NHS Blood and Transplant. He led the end-to-end redevelopment of the NHS GiveBlood App and Donor Web Portal, migrating legacy systems to a headless architecture, microservice backend, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code to improve robustness and time-to-market for millions of users. Comfortable making critical architectural and tooling decisions, he combines hands-on technical direction with recruiting and line management to foster a collaborative, no-blame engineering culture. He routinely horizon-scans emerging technologies to introduce pragmatic improvements and ties technical choices to organisational strategy and measurable operational gains. An even-keel senior manager, he balances risk evaluation with delivery-focused innovation to produce scalable, efficient healthcare software.
14 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
577reputation
94kreached
17answers
10questions
Github Skills (28)
clean-css8
google-map7
html6
mobile6
minification6
asp-net6
mobile-devices6
asp-net-mvc6
jquery6
simplemembership6
toggle6
ajax6
javascript6
optimization5
google-maps5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shibbard/jQuery-modalPopLite
Feb 2012 - Feb 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 2 years
modalboxjqueryjavascriptpopup-box
shibbard/client-sites
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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