Colton Pierson
Founder at Thousand Birds, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolColton Pierson is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building infrastructure and abstractions for AI agents as CEO of Thousand Birds. Previously he was VP of Engineering at Curative, scaling the team from 8 to 44 engineers and building testing infrastructure that ran ~200,000 tests per day to help deliver over 36 million COVID tests to government agencies including Congress. He was an early engineer at Figma (employee #31) who delivered multi‑order‑of‑magnitude improvements to loading performance, and co‑founder/CTO of Assembly (YC S15) where he led distributed teams and built a protocol for reliably transmitting images and video over unreliable networks in China. Based in San Francisco and trained at the University of Arizona, he combines startup founder grit with hands‑on systems engineering and a track record of shipping resilient systems at national scale.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (165)
ui-components10
debugging10
typescript10
reactjs10
react10
react-components9
ai9
maps9
ui-kit9
antd9
ui-design9
geospatial-analysis9
data-visualization8
minifier8
agents8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kvey/pogointel-frontend
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
kvey/kvey.github.io
Mar 2018 - Sep 2024
Pages
Contributions:102 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 7 months
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