Hey there! I'm Colin. Here's a little bit about me: I have a passion for math, science, problem solving, sports, and games. I’m an engineer to my core. I enjoy creating structure from chaos, building things, and thinking about tough questions. That, combined with an interest in all things digital, has led me to a degree in mechanical engineering and then a switch to a career in software development.
AppAcademy
Coding Bootcamp
Georgia Institute of Technology
NextCapital
· Leveraged containers to automate integration testing. Expanded test builds in Jenkins from single-app unit test suites to full-stack multi-app integration tests, which shifted testing left, eliminated test maintenance time, and expanded test coverage.
· Acted as engineering manager and technical lead for a team of 4 engineers.
· Contributed to the hiring process by writing and editing technical questions, running technical interviews for junior and senior-level developers.
· Mentored several developers. Mentorship included technical onboarding, stack setup, guidance through development tasks, code review, and teaching company code standards and best-practices.
· Managed several cohorts of interns. Each cohort required project scoping, technical design, mentorship, and code review.
· Designed and wrote features which integrated the platform with retirement account custodial services. The features enabled solutions which now have over 50,000 accounts and more than 5 billion in assets under management.
· Subject matter expert (SME) for a number of mission-critical services in the application. SME responsibilities included code review, developer training, documentation, and troubleshooting.
VIM Recyclers
· Automated monthly accounting reports and delivery process by creating a module in Excel VBA. Code included SQL, email, pivot table, and data recap.
· Managed IT budgets ($250k - $500k/year), procedures, documentation, asset acquisition, and asset distribution for 50 users at locations in IL and MO.
· Designed and implemented custom equipment to reclaim scrap materials. Resulted in increase in product value from approx. -.10$/lb to approx. .20$/lb.
Powertech Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Pratt & Whitney
ELI5IENCE
Science focused app for annotating difficult to understand articles. Based on RapGenius.
OCULUS BATTLE
Browser game with dynamic layout, difficulty, and AI. Units spawned with collision detection, semi-random locations, and velocity vectors to move them to selected target. Mouse click handling uses mouse location to select and deselect bases.
MINI RAILS
MiniRails is an MVC framework web server inspired by Ruby on Rails.