Colin Obrien
Partner at Wild Roar
Aspen, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Obrien is a product-minded partner and founder who turns ideas into user-focused digital products by combining UX/UI design, full-stack development, and strategic product leadership. With roughly 12–15 years of hands-on experience shipping websites and publishing platforms, he’s led engineering teams, managed large-scale content systems, and now runs Wild Roar to deliver bespoke web experiences. He built and scaled publishing infrastructure at Outside—migrating 20+ sites, managing DevOps for a 28-site network, and launching a Next.js SPA for subscription video—showing strength across frontend, backend, and ops. An award-winning designer and open-source contributor, Colin blends aesthetic sensibility with pragmatic engineering to move projects from concept to polished product. Based in Aspen, he favors solutions that empower creators and prioritize measurable business outcomes. Collected roles across startups, agencies, and legacy media give him a rare fluency in both speed-driven product work and production-grade platform engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stackoverflow
961reputation
369kreached
3answers
2questions
mysql
top-5%
Github Skills (34)
wordpress10
trellis10
composer10
mysql9
php9
boilerplate9
media-query8
backgrounds6
redirect6
fullscreen6
vendor-prefix6
htaccess6
sass6
css6
compass6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
seafarer/bedrock
Nov 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:21 pushes in 2 years 6 months
development-toolstemplateboilerplateimprovedwordpress
seafarer/static-site-boilerplate
Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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