Colin Barrett
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Barrett is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ireland with 14 years of professional experience and a long tenure at Microsoft spanning engineering and management roles. He has progressed from hands-on developer positions to Senior Software Engineering Manager and back to a senior individual contributor role, demonstrating both leadership and deep technical craft. His background includes significant time at Havok where he worked across developer relations and engineering, giving him a strong perspective on platform usability and external developer ecosystems. Trained in Mathematical Sciences at Dublin City University, he combines analytical rigor with practical software delivery. Known for keeping an up-to-date personal website as the authoritative source of his work, he values clear documentation and external-facing technical communication. He brings a pragmatic mix of systems thinking, developer advocacy experience, and production-scale engineering at a major cloud and platform company.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematical Sciences, BS Mathematical Sciences at Dublin City University
Github Skills (26)
viewer10
cpu10
opengl9
metal9
profiler9
cuda9
vulkan8
gpu8
linux8
realtime8
modular8
engine7
toolchain7
angelscript7
2d7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
barrettcolin/barrettcolin.github.io
May 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
barrettcolin/dhewm3
Jul 2019 - Jun 2024
dhewm 3 main repository
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
linux
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