Colin Adler
Software Engineer at Base Power Company
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolColin Adler is a backend software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Kubernetes, Go, and Rust, based in Austin, Texas. He progressed from hands-on engineering roles to security leadership as CISO at Coder, and now builds infrastructure at Base Power Company. Colin contributes to prominent open-source systems—improving Go bindings and performance in the widely used FoundationDB project—which reflects his focus on production-grade distributed storage and performance tuning. He blends low-level optimization (e.g., int64-to-bytes improvements) with modern cloud-native practices, making him effective at both systems programming and platform reliability. Colleenly curious, he maintains a public go↔rust toolchain mindset on GitHub, signaling cross-language fluency that helps bridge teams and runtimes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at University of CincinnatiMadeira High School
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Github Skills (10)
foundationdb10
binding10
go10
key-value-store10
distributed-database10
package-management9
file-management9
management9
configuration-management9
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apple/foundationdb
Jan 2019 - May 2019
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 16 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Colin focused on enhancing the Go bindings for the FoundationDB key-value store. Their contributions included adding support for Go modules by modifying the installation script and introducing a `go.mod` file. They also worked on formatting and optimizing the existing Go code base, specifically refactoring the lines in `transaction.go`, and improving the performance of `int64ToBytes` calls. Further, the user added labels for futures within the system and corrected calls to existing functions.
bigtabletransactionaldistributed-databasefoundationdbdatabase
coadler/fishy
May 2017 - Jun 2018
text based fishing simulator as a microservice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Contributions:50 commits, 47 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
golangsimulatorfishingmicroservicestext-based
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