Colin Mcdonald
Cofounder at Moonsworth, LLC
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolColin Mcdonald is a cofounder and full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms and consumer-facing applications. He started Moonsworth from a dorm room and has since grown it into the #1 third-party Minecraft: Java Edition client, serving millions of users and reliably supporting 110k+ concurrent players. Colin blends front-end focus and test-driven development with hands-on infrastructure work—migrating services to Cloud Run, optimizing costs, and running large-scale AWS ECS and Kubernetes fleets. He has led and hired engineering teams, built cross-platform Electron launchers, and authored operators/automation to enable zero-downtime game rollouts. Recognized on the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with an open-source mindset and a knack for turning hobbyist projects into robust, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma Information Technology, High School Diploma Information Technology at Gloucester County Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (37)
react-redux10
redux10
react-router10
react-native9
ios9
package9
android9
react9
state-management8
cross-platform8
webpack8
full-stack8
npm8
javascript8
nodejs7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CodeBlackwell/Polis
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:152 commits in 2 months
Wise-Pulp/wise-pulp
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:167 commits, 66 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 months
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