Colin Decarlo
Head Of The Party Planning Committee at Vehikl
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolColin Decarlo is a seasoned web application developer with 15 years of experience specializing in backend LAMP-stack development and pragmatic, maintainable code. He has progressed from analyst and architect roles to senior software engineer positions at FreshBooks and Northland, and now leads team culture (and office celebrations) as Head of the Party Planning Committee at Vehikl. Colin prefers small, collaborative problem solving—whiteboard sessions over large meetings—and excels at turning complex data challenges into practical solutions. An active contributor to the Laravel framework, he has improved HTTP request handling, caching and Redis integration tests, demonstrating comfort working in prominent open-source projects. Based in Guelph, Ontario, he combines a practical, idea-driven mindset with continual learning in development and design methodologies.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B. Comp, Computer and Information Science, B. Comp, Computer and Information Science at University of Guelph
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Github Skills (16)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing9
caching9
redis8
stripe-payments6
unit-testing6
unirest6
macos6
javascript6
apache6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Feb 2014 - Jan 2020
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on improving the Laravel framework's core functionalities, specifically concerning HTTP request handling and caching mechanisms. They refactored the `segment` and `segments` methods within the `Request` class to ensure consistency and DRY code. Additionally, the user added Redis integration tests and made adjustments to caching and mailer components. Several commits also involved making specific console commands abstract.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
colindecarlo/collection
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1 release, 72 commits, 50 pushes in 5 months
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