Colin Ritchey
Frontend Engineer at PayZen
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Ritchey is a Frontend Engineer with 11 years of experience building user-focused web applications from early-stage products to scale-up environments in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a BA in Computational Mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and formal training at App Academy, he blends strong numeric reasoning with practical front-end chops in React/Redux, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and backend familiarity in Ruby on Rails and Postgres. He’s held progressive roles from Front End Engineer to Staff Software Engineer, delivering production features at fintech and mental-health tech companies such as SynapseFI, Total Brain, and SonderMind. Colin is pragmatic about shipping reliable UIs and has hands-on experience automating data pipelines and form generation (e.g., CSV parsing and PhantomJS-driven document output). Comfortable working across the stack, he brings a disciplined work ethic and a knack for turning messy data and regulatory requirements into polished, user-ready interfaces. Now at PayZen, he continues to focus on building performant front-end experiences that bridge product needs and technical constraints.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzApp Academy
Github Skills (13)
npm-package7
npm6
backend6
django5
react4
python4
django-rest-framework4
full-stack4
frontend3
api-requests2
js-api1
api1
wrapper1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SynapseUI/dev-ui-docz
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
documentation for synapsefi-dev-ui
Contributions:41 PRs, 32 pushes, 37 branches in 1 year 4 months
reacttypescriptdev
SynapseUI/synapsefi-ui
May 2018 - Aug 2018
SynapseFi UI npm package
Contributions:164 commits, 63 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 months
npm-packagenpm
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