Colin Friend
Mail Processor at Outlier
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Friend is a versatile full-stack mobile developer with over a decade of professional experience and six years focused on building and optimising mobile applications. He has led product development for the acquire-vocab app, steering technical decisions, modernising UIs, and integrating cloud and monetisation services to improve reliability and scalability. Colin’s background spans hands-on engineering, QA, multimedia production, and data annotation for RLHF, giving him a rare blend of product, quality, and AI-data experience. He has modernised legacy projects—migrating APIs, updating Android targets and Delphi versions—and introduced team-wide tooling like Git and Jira to lift engineering practices. Based in Sydney, he pairs practical problem-solving with an eye for UX and automation, and has experimented with AI services such as translation and TTS to extend app capabilities. His career shows a consistent pattern of stabilising complex systems while pushing incremental innovation across small teams and high-volume operational roles.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Games Development, Diploma Games Development at Hornsby TAFEBachelor of Science (BS) Games Development, Bachelor of Science (BS) Games Development at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (11)
playing8
python5
screeps5
codebase5
scheme2
texturepacker1
animated1
common-lisp1
openframeworks1
addon1
lisp1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dragoonreas/Screeps
Nov 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:308 commits, 222 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 5 months
dragoonreas/Timeless-Answers
Sep 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 1 year 1 month
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