Chris Colborne
Senior Software Engineer, Clipchamp at Microsoft
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolChris Colborne is a senior software engineer based in Queensland with 12 years of experience building front-end experiences and full-stack web applications. He specializes in React and modern JavaScript while bringing deep legacy expertise in PHP, MySQL and Oracle, plus hands-on experience with Symfony, Zend and WordPress. Chris has shipped UI components and design-system work in TypeScript at enterprise scale, integrating React into mixed stacks (including Angular and .NET backends) and driving testable, component-driven workflows using Storybook and Jest. His background spans mobile development with Java and React Native, giving him a practical cross-platform perspective that informs UI and API design choices. A long tenure in university and enterprise roles shows he balances product-minded engineering with maintainable architecture, often translating complex business requirements into reliable user-facing features. Outside core stacks, he’s comfortable bridging old and new systems—an asset for teams modernizing legacy PHP or Java services.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (159)
testing10
hijri10
javascript10
html10
android-apps10
angular10
typescript10
vue10
svelte10
documentation10
kotlin10
react-native10
calendar-widget10
web-components10
vite10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zorfling/sharepoint-ripper
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
zorfling/fitexplorer
Apr 2015 - Feb 2025
Google Fit api exploration
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 11 months
google-fitapigooglefitgoogle-fit-api
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