Summary
Colin 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
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah