Colin Childs
Vice President Of Engineering at Canopy
Lehi, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolColin Childs is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building scalable SaaS platforms and leading backend engineering teams. Currently Vice President of Engineering at Canopy, he has progressed through technical and architectural roles to oversee a multidisciplinary group working with Java, Kotlin, Python, and PostgreSQL. He blends hands-on microservices development with strategic ownership of observability, performance, and system scalability, and has been instrumental in driving Canopy’s AI initiatives from prototype to production. Known for mentoring engineers across web, data, AI, and mobile domains, he balances individual contributor depth with organizational leadership. A Brigham Young University computer science graduate and privacy-minded open-source advocate, he brings a pragmatic curiosity for AI/ML and a persistent focus on shipping high-quality, maintainable code.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (44)
git-repo10
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security9
rust9
gitlab9
debian8
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rust-lang8
bootstrap8
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dnsmasq7
internet7
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
coldhakca/coldkernel
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:187 commits, 6 PRs, 208 pushes in 11 months
kernellinuxhardened
coldhakca/sync_family
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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