Colin Loretz
Senior Developer Advocate
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Loretz is a Senior Developer Advocate at Discord with 14 years of experience building APIs, integrations, and developer-first platforms. He has deep hands-on experience designing third‑party integration frameworks and scaling data ingestion pipelines from roles at Orbit, Numerous, and Cloudsnap. A longtime Reno community builder, Colin founded the city’s first coworking space, organized Ignite Reno and Hack4Reno, and still runs events that connect local tech talent. His background spans product, consulting, and engineering—from Shopify subscription systems to Salesforce and mobile integrations—giving him a practical bridge between developer needs and product strategy. He’s equally comfortable in code and on stage, helping teams adopt APIs and developer workflows while mentoring communities. Based in Reno, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a focus on making APIs run the world.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Marketing, Marketing at University of Nevada-Reno
Stackoverflow
21reputation
830reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (74)
discord-interactions10
discord-js10
api10
documentation10
discord10
member10
api-documentation10
discord-bot10
cloudflare-workers9
orbit8
javascript8
mongoose8
github8
cloudflare8
nodejs8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hack4reno/hack4reno.github.io
Sep 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 6 years 9 months
colinloretz/discord-api-docs
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Official Discord API Documentation
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 106 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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