Colin Hunt
Lead Engineer at Viafoura
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Hunt is a Lead Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building robust full-stack systems and real-time data platforms. Currently leading engineering at Viafoura, he brings deep expertise in Java, Python, JavaScript, and cloud deployments, with a strong background in low-latency, high-frequency data pipelines developed at Pason. He has led teams delivering resilient streaming and historical analytics solutions that tolerate outages without data loss, and helped build CI/CD pipelines using Ansible, Docker, Puppet, and Jenkins for OpenStack and AWS deployments. A University of Alberta computing science graduate with a 3.9 GPA, Colin combines sound engineering principles with practical product focus, often surfacing elegant solutions to operational challenges. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who still enjoys rolling up his sleeves to improve performance and reliability.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with Specialization, Computing Science with Business Minor and Industrial Internship Program, 3.9 GPA, Bachelor of Science with Specialization, Computing Science with Business Minor and Industrial Internship Program, 3.9 GPA at University of Alberta
Github Skills (63)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
colinhunt/se-mockup
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:58 commits, 8 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 month
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colinhunt/operating-systems
Nov 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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