Colin D
Core Platform Manager
Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolColin D is a hands-on engineering leader and Core Platform Manager with 13 years of experience building and scaling developer platforms, SRE, and DevOps capabilities across retail and fintech. He blends deep technical roots as a former back-end developer and DevOps lead with strategic global management, having led platform and observability teams at YOOX NET-A-PORTER and engineering teams at Motorway. Known for cultivating developer autonomy, he pairs active listening and coaching with practical tooling initiatives to accelerate delivery and reliability. Comfortable in high-stakes environments, he has also applied his technical eye to event photography for motorsport and hospitality clients, demonstrating creativity beyond code. Based in Uttlesford, England, he thrives on adapting to different working styles and continuously exploring new technologies to drive measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (87)
case-class10
realtime9
http-client9
pact9
scala9
elixir9
api-server9
http-server9
reactivemongo8
golang8
scala-native8
http8
programming-language8
testing8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NET-A-PORTER/dynamo-mapper
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 months
dynamodb-clientsdkscaladynamodbaws
hmrc/mongo-caching
Mar 2017 - Jul 2020
Micro-library containing functionality to cache generic data HTTP payloads into MongoDB
Contributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 4 months
genericcachemicro-librarypayloadsmongodb
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