Colin Burton
Staff Engineering Manager at Sennos
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Burton is a Staff Engineering Manager in Ann Arbor with 12 years of experience building and modernizing full-stack web platforms. He combines deep PHP/Symfony and WordPress expertise with modern JavaScript (React/React Native) and solid backend skills in MySQL, Python, and Linux, enabling him to lead both application development and infrastructure improvements. At Sennos he defines technical and architectural roadmaps and mentors engineers to keep the platform scalable, stable, and maintainable, after progressing from hands-on senior developer work. Previously he modernized legacy systems and developer workflows as Lead Developer at MedHub and KioMedia, consistently increasing developer productivity and delivery cadence. He pairs a pragmatic product-minded approach with practical analytics experience—using web metrics to shape feature decisions and marketing effectiveness. Trained originally in microbiology, he brings analytical rigor and a cross-disciplinary perspective to technical leadership.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English
Github Skills (41)
twitter-bootstrap10
bootstrap10
python8
keylogger8
irc-bot7
keyboard-events7
keylogging7
raspberry-pi7
iot6
php6
mqtt6
home-automation5
irc5
user-management5
keyboard5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
etamme/brewbot
Oct 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:64 commits, 54 pushes in 3 years 5 months
irc-botbotircruby
Gremlyn/fpdf
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020
I took the original FPDF library made by Oliver Plathey and refactored it to use PSR-4 autloading
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
oliverphppsr-4psrrefactored
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