Colin Brash
Director Of Engineering at Red Ventures
Weston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Brash is a Director of Engineering with 12 years of experience leading mobile-first teams and scaling engineering organizations from hands-on iOS development to senior management. He blends deep iOS technical chops—contributing to the open edX iOS app—with strong people management, having grown QA and engineering teams and shifted processes to improve delivery cadence. Colin has a track record of aligning teams to business goals, migrating tools and workflows at scale, and repeatedly shipping rapid releases across cross-functional, onshore/offshore teams. Based in Weston, MA, he brings a pragmatic mix of code-level fluency in Objective-C/Swift and strategic leadership gained at companies from Intrepid to edX and Red Ventures. Notably, he pairs practical UI and playback fixes in open-source mobile apps with an eye for building durable staffing and process systems that sustain growth.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (9)
wkwebview10
swift10
ios10
mobile-development10
avplayer10
openedx9
testing8
ui-design8
ed255197
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/edx-app-ios
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
The Open edX mobile app for iOS!
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:46 reviews, 24 commits, 33 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on improving the edX iOS mobile app by addressing various issues and implementing enhancements. They fixed navigation problems related to web views, replacing legacy user agent overrides with modern methods, and resolving video playback issues by directly setting the player rate. Additionally, the user modified the "Resume Course" banner and fixed blurry icons, refining the app's UI and user experience. They also corrected video seeking tests to ensure accurate testing of functionality.
edxmobile-appswiftiosopen-edx
IntrepidPursuits/ios-testing-workshop
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 9 months
testingworkshop
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