Colin Powell
Senior Software Engineer at Hungryroot
Castine, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolColin Powell is a pragmatic senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building and stabilizing both legacy systems and greenfield projects while living and working remotely from a sheep farm in Castine, Maine. With a BA in English and Computer Science, he blends clear user-focused communication with disciplined engineering practices—testing, consistent project structure, and maintainable APIs—to turn messy data into actionable insights. He’s improved performance and integrations in insurance and billing domains, led carrier integrations that increased policies, and reduced churn through onboarding and tooling improvements. An active contributor to open-source projects like Mathesar, Colin focuses on backend API testing and robust filtering features, and volunteers building MVPs for civic tech in hackathons. His mix of hands-on engineering, remote leadership, and community service makes him adept at shipping practical, user-centered solutions under real-world constraints.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, Computer Science, BA, English, Computer Science at Lawrence University
English, French
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Github Skills (11)
api10
pytest10
python10
apidoc10
postgresql9
database-management9
django8
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
svelte3
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mathesar-foundation/mathesar
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
An intuitive spreadsheet-like interface that lets users of all technical skill levels view, edit, query, and collaborate on Postgres data directly—100% open source and self hosted, with native Postgres access control.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the backend of the Mathesar project, focusing on API testing and data filtering functionalities. They wrote test cases to validate boolean filtering options via the API, and implemented fixes for linting errors. Furthermore, the user worked on genericizing the API filter tests for improved reusability and adjusted the tests to ensure their correct execution. The user also added tests to validate filtering of boolean types, and created initial documentation for filter options in the API.
pythondjangouser-experienceweb-applicationintuitive
powellc/outline
May 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:64 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 11 months
pythonstarting-pointdjango-rest-frameworkdjangopoint
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