Colin Prepscius
Software Engineer at Lightcraft Technology
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Prepscius is a founding engineer and versatile software developer with roughly two decades of experience building products across games, education, finance, robotics, and machine learning. He combines hands-on engineering in iOS, Python, React and ML with leadership experience founding startups and shipping enterprise-grade systems for major financial institutions. At Samsung he developed robotics and tactile sensing research systems, and he recently joined Persona AI to build AI applications—continuing a pattern of moving between deep research and product delivery. Colin is the author of Stretchpaper, an infinite iPad note-taking/drawing app, and Spikeflow, a spiking neural network library for TensorFlow, signaling a long-standing interest in biologically inspired ML. Known for shipping practical prototypes—from DLT proofs of concept to distributed Python for trading grids—he thrives on interesting, interdisciplinary problems that bridge research and production. Based in New York, he enjoys projects that mix innovation with real-world impact.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (114)
json-parser10
python10
zero-copy10
javascript10
whisper10
mmap10
protobuf10
grpc10
java10
serialization10
rpc10
speech-to-text10
inference10
openai10
marshalling9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
colinator/spikeflow
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Python library for easy creation and running of spiking neural networks in tensorflow.
Contributions:37 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
pythonspiking-neural-networkstensorflowsnncomputational-neuroscience
flexrobotics/roboflex
May 2023 - Apr 2026
Robotics middleware that is simple, performant, and uses dynamic messaging over any transport.
Contributions:137 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
middlewarerobotics
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