Colin Nelson
Senior Developer Programs Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Nelson is a Senior Developer Programs Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience building backend services, CI/CD automation, and developer-focused tooling. A mathematics major and former collegiate distance swimmer, he blends analytical rigor with discipline to design reliable, production-grade systems and developer workflows. At Google he’s contributed to high-profile open-source efforts like repo-automation-bots, architecting serverless Probot deployments on Google Cloud Functions and integrating Cloud Tasks and schedulers for resilient automation. Previously he led product architecture and release management in industrial software, shipping mobile and web integrations and improving team onboarding to halve ramp time. Equally comfortable in client-facing roles and deep in the codebase, he’s a tinkerer and container enthusiast who enjoys practical research to solve complex operational problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The John Cooper SchoolBS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Davidson College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
google-cloud-tasks10
probot10
google-cloud-functions10
tasks10
cicd10
gcp10
serverless10
bash9
go9
javascript7
dockers7
typescript7
typescript-types7
docker7
typescripts7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/repo-automation-bots
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
A collection of bots, based on probot, for performing common maintenance tasks across the open-source repos managed by Google on GitHub.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 29 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure for running Probot applications on Google Cloud Functions (GCF). Their contributions include creating utilities for deploying Probot apps, adding retry logic using Cloud Tasks, and automating the build and deployment process with scripts. They also worked on setting up the serverless scheduler proxy and integrating cron jobs for scheduled tasks, demonstrating a strong understanding of backend services and CI/CD practices.
botbotsprobotmaintenance
GoogleCloudPlatform/devrel-services
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 124 commits, 162 PRs in 2 years 8 months
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