Colin Johnson
Software Development Engineer II at AbeBooks, an Amazon company
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Johnson is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience and a steady track record at AbeBooks (an Amazon company), progressing from co-op roles to Software Development Engineer II. Based in Victoria, BC, he combines solid computer science fundamentals from the University of Victoria with practical experience in web and backend systems developed across multiple co-op placements and production roles. His background includes data analysis and hydrological modeling early in his career, giving him a data-driven mindset when approaching engineering problems. At AbeBooks he has grown through successive roles, demonstrating an ability to learn quickly and take on increased ownership within a large-scale e-commerce environment. Colleagues would describe him as reliable, curious, and efficient at translating customer-facing requirements into maintainable code.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Victoria
Github Skills (6)
webscraping5
scraper5
jekyll2
typescript1
npm-package1
nodejs1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ColinGJohnson/maze-game
Feb 2019 - Dec 2025
A JavaScript browser game in which the player successively completes increasingly difficult randomly generated mazes.
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 11 months
gamebrowsergame-in-browserin-gamejavascript
ColinGJohnson/mandelbrot-cli
Mar 2023 - Jul 2025
CLI tool to generate images of the Mandelbrot set
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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