Colin Ristig
Director Of Product Management at Emerge
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolColin Ristig is a product leader with 12 years of experience building data-focused software and scaling teams, currently serving as Director of Product Management at Emerge in Boulder. His background blends hands-on engineering contributions—such as full‑stack work on the Rodeo data science IDE—with strategic product roles at Alteryx, Yhat, and a COO stint at Waldo, giving him fluency across technical, operational, and GTM challenges. He pairs formal training in applied math and data science with practical analytics experience from early roles in risk and research, enabling him to translate complex technical needs into usable products. Known for improving developer and user workflows (keyboard shortcuts, Windows compatibility, tracking metrics), he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to shipping features that matter.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science, Data Science at General AssemblyBachelor's degree, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Economics, Applied Mathematics at Davidson CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Dos Pueblos High School
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Github Skills (13)
python10
javascript9
react8
electron8
css7
html7
pip6
spyder6
anaconda6
statsmodels6
rodeo6
ubuntu6
github4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yhat/rodeo
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
A data science IDE for Python
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 15 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Colin contributed to both the frontend and backend of the Rodeo data science IDE. They fixed bugs, added features such as keyboard shortcuts and external links, and improved the user interface by centering elements and updating the run button. Additionally, the user improved Windows compatibility, added tracking metrics, and updated the registration process.
pythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learningide
coristig/coristig.github.io
Nov 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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