Colin Hanson
Engineering Manager at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Hanson is an engineering manager based in New York with a decade of hands-on experience leading software teams and more than 15 years of overall software development background. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Zocdoc—rising from software engineer to Director of Engineering—and recently joined Meta as an Engineering Manager, demonstrating a track record of scaling teams and systems in fast-paced product environments. Colin blends practical engineering depth with people leadership, focusing on delivery reliability, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration. He’s comfortable shipping across the stack and has repeatedly promoted engineering culture improvements that reduce operational friction. A Connecticut College computer science graduate, he brings both startup agility and enterprise rigor to building resilient consumer-facing platforms.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Connecticut College
Github Skills (14)
python10
ssh10
ansible10
devops9
automation9
infrastructure-as-code8
version-control7
network-configuration7
server6
database6
sql5
sql-server5
mssql4
databases1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Zocdoc/schemazen
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 6 pushes, 12 branches in 10 months
sqlsql-server
colin-hanson-zocdoc/Test
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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