Colin Armstrong
CEO at Mirror
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolColin Armstrong is a founder and CEO with 12 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently leading Paragraph and recently acquiring Mirror. He built and scaled anti-abuse systems at Google protecting communications products and earlier improved Bitcoin private-key infrastructure while launching Coinbase in Canada. Combining hands-on systems engineering with product leadership, he moves between low-level security work and strategic company-building. Based in San Francisco and trained in computer engineering at Waterloo, he blends large-company abuse-fighting expertise with startup grit and a knack for shipping infrastructure that withstands real-world adversaries.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
prosemirror10
act10
browser10
webscraping10
espn10
static-site-generator10
draft-js10
discourse10
contenteditable10
baking10
scraper10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
paragraph-xyz/docs
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:17 reviews, 25 commits, 21 PRs in 6 months
seeARMS/dotfiles
Sep 2017 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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