Christopher Colen
Software Engineer at Google
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Colen is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who currently leads a small engineering team at Google, designing large-scale server solutions and coordinating cross-functional launches. He combines hands-on technical contributions—writing Java server code, SQL for data integrity, and server-side A/B experiments—with team leadership and product strategy. Previously he built company-wide internal tools and managed full-stack development as CTO at a startup, showing a knack for turning product ideas into daily-used systems. Based in Cambridge, MA, he thrives on logic puzzles and deep problem-solving sessions, bringing both curiosity and practical delivery to complex distributed systems. Notably, he has experience calibrating experiments and fixing cross-server serving issues, a detail that highlights his focus on measurable impact and production reliability.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Junior, Computer Science, Junior at Cornell University
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
cdcolen/cdcolen.github.io
Feb 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
bjc265/ProgressAnalysis
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:36 pushes in 1 day
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