Colin King
Staff Software Engineer at Rippling
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin King is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building infrastructure services and developer-facing primitives. He joined Rippling after helping grow Airplane from a one-person founding hire into a 22-person team and an acquisition by Airtable, and previously worked on customer data infrastructure at Segment. Colin blends backend and frontend chops—he’s an active contributor to Segment’s Evergreen React UI framework, improving components like ComboBox, Autocomplete, and Dialog for better customization and accessibility. He also teaches practical cloud computing (he founded a for-credit AWS course at UMD) and has a track record of designing auditable, scalable systems from his Google internship work. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions, he favors building new primitives that make complex infrastructure easier to use.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Maryland
English
Stackoverflow
83reputation
3kreached
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ui-components10
component-library10
react10
ui-design9
system9
combobox8
autocomplete8
prop7
props7
freeze6
macos6
php6
executable-jar6
google-app-engine6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
segmentio/evergreen
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
🌲 Evergreen React UI Framework by Segment
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 16 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the Evergreen React UI Framework by Segment, implementing new features and fixing bugs related to UI components. Their work includes adding disabled and loading states to the ComboBox component and resolving filtering issues with custom itemToString functions in the Autocomplete and Combobox components. The user also introduced support for custom headers and footers within the Dialog component, enhancing its customization capabilities. Furthermore, they made adjustments to PropTypes within the Table component.
react-ui-frameworkreactevergreenui-frameworkdesign-system
airplanedev/cli
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
The Airplane CLI
Contributions:555 reviews, 150 commits, 266 PRs in 1 year 10 months
airplanecli
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