Colin Milhench
Staff Engineer at Civica
North Devon, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolColin Milhench is a Staff Engineer based in North Devon with over two decades of hands-on engineering experience and 12 years in senior technical roles, specialising in cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS built on microservices with Go. He leads by example, driving engineering quality, execution and alignment to overarching technical strategy while mentoring teams on scalable, resilient AWS architectures. Colin combines deep operational knowledge—security, cost-performance optimisation and compliance—with practical system design, routinely turning business requirements into robust cloud solutions. His career spans enterprise and product-focused companies from MessageLabs to Civica, giving him a rare blend of legacy systems experience and modern cloud-first practice. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture guidance and for keeping teams current with emerging cloud technologies.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSC (Hons), BSC (Hons) at Oxford Brookes University
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Github Skills (14)
sasl9
client-library9
irc-server9
irc-protocol9
irc8
nodejs7
xcode6
wkwebview6
html6
ajax6
webview6
javascript6
jquery6
iphone6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cmilhench/.local
Oct 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 9 months
cmilhench/gosocket
Oct 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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