Colin Cromar
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Cars Commerce
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolColin Cromar is a Senior Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building distributed, cloud-native systems and leading cross-functional teams to pragmatic solutions. He currently leads a platform team at Cars Commerce that centralizes customer accounts, partners, products, features, entitlements, and identity for internal engineering teams. Colin has driven full rewrites and language migrations—most notably moving a legacy Rails app to Elixir/Phoenix—and has hands-on experience across Go services, payment processors, caching, and query optimization. Comfortable spanning product, UX, and engineering, he excels at turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, production-ready platforms. Based in Salt Lake City, he pairs deep technical curiosity with a collaborative leadership style that focuses on long-term maintainability and team enablement.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Stackoverflow
580reputation
30kreached
11answers
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Github Skills (38)
skeleton10
boilerplate10
eagle10
responsive9
management8
canvas-lms8
canvas7
ruby-on-rails6
nodejs6
devise6
typescript6
ruby6
authentication6
javascript6
logger6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
colincromar/tesla_curl
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
Tesla Middleware for logging requests in Curl format
Contributions:10 releases, 1 review, 106 PRs in 2 years 3 months
loggerloggingcurlmiddlewaretesla
colincromar/pergola
Nov 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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