Colin Bridges
Senior Software Engineer at Truework
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Bridges is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland with 13 years of experience building and scaling backend systems across fintech, retail, and sports domains. He’s currently at Truework after leading engineering and senior roles at Flow Finance/FlowFi, Cash App, Acorns, and Nike where he reshaped monolithic Scala services, managed teams of nine, and designed search promotion architectures. Comfortable across the JVM ecosystem, Colin has a track record of hardening mission-critical services that handle millions of accounts and of moving teams toward more reliable, scalable systems. His Math and CS background from Colorado School of Mines informs a pragmatic, data-minded approach to engineering decisions, and his career path shows a blend of hands-on coding, technical leadership, and product-aligned infrastructure work.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Colorado School of MinesUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln
Github Skills (13)
fullcontact9
php-library7
api6
sdk6
php5
flesch-kincaid4
database-migration3
analyzer3
scala-native2
scala2
readability2
jvm1
flyway1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
colinpilloud/colin.zone
Nov 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
colinpilloud/colin.bridges.party
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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