Colby Garland
Chief Technology Officer at Insurely Inc.
Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolColby Garland is a technology leader and current CTO at Insurely with 11 years of experience evolving from hands-on full‑stack and front‑end work into strategic product and engineering leadership. He blends a user-first approach to UX and accessibility with deep backend expertise in PHP/Laravel, Next.js, and scalable system design. At Hootsuite he led initiatives that supported millions of monthly visitors and championed company-wide accessibility education while growing and mentoring engineering teams. Colby excels at translating business priorities into reliable, secure platforms in regulated industries, and pairs technical vision with practical delivery. He is happiest building teams that ship thoughtful software and fostering developer growth through coaching and alignment. Based in Grande Prairie, Alberta, he brings a rare combination of empathy-driven design sensibilities and strong operational discipline to CTO responsibilities.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems and Technology Diploma, Computer Science, Computer Systems and Technology Diploma, Computer Science at Northwestern Polytechnic
Github Skills (113)
rematch10
react-native-ios10
laravel10
reactotron10
debugging10
redux-saga10
wix10
redux10
php10
javascript9
visual-studio-code-extension9
mobx-state-tree9
react-native9
desktop9
forms9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
colbygarland/colbygarland.ca
Jan 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:17 PRs, 219 pushes, 17 branches in 6 years 6 months
colbygarland/front-end-interview-questions
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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