Summary
Colin Mcneill is a pragmatic DevOps Engineer III based in Newport Beach with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and collaborative workplace technologies. He progressed from software and support roles into DevOps, bringing a strong foundation in Ruby on Rails, system administration, and technical support that helps him bridge development and operations effectively. At Robert Half he advanced rapidly from DevOps II to III, and prior roles at Cognoa and Collabtech show experience applying DevOps to healthcare and enterprise collaboration contexts. His background in physics and early research/QA roles gives him a data-driven, investigative approach to troubleshooting and automation. Colleagues know him for combining client-facing communication skills with technical depth—able to both design architectures and roll up his sleeves to implement them.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Academic Honors Diploma, Academic Honors Diploma at Western High School
English, German, French