Colin Kierans
Senior Full Stack Developer at ShareWares
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolColin Kierans is a Senior Full Stack Developer based in Vancouver with 14 years of experience building maintainable web applications and mentoring junior engineers. He blends hands-on full-stack delivery at ShareWares and entrepreneurial product work through his own consultancy with a strong focus on clear, legible code, well-named functions, and useful comments. Colin has a track record of improving user experience—evidenced by front-end enhancements to an RPG card generator project that added visual cues, rounded card styling, and downloadable assets. He’s passionate about teaching, mentors Lighthouse Labs students, and enjoys translating that pedagogy into cleaner codebases and onboarding practices. Comfortable across startups and creative companies like Monstercat and WellPlayed, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a designer’s attention to UI details.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Diploma, Computer Science: Operation and Management, Computer Science Diploma, Computer Science: Operation and Management at Thompson Rivers University
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Github Skills (11)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
html9
user-interface8
twitter-typeahead8
typeahead8
interface-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
crobi/rpg-cards
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
RPG spell/item/monster card generator
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the RPG card generator. Their contributions include implementing new card elements, such as icons, and improving the typeahead dropdown with visual cues. They also introduced new features, like rounded corners for cards and a file download with a user-specified name, while addressing UI bugs like saving issues and live preview updates during content editing.
rpgspellitemcard-generatortypescript
Vindexus/VinMoves
Jul 2016 - Oct 2020
Custom Dungeon World moves for GMs to give their monsters.
Contributions:91 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
movesdungeondungeon-worldgmsmonsters
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