Colin Ross
Lead Engineer Engineering Manager at Herrmann
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorColin Ross is a San Diego–based engineering leader with 10 years of professional experience delivering SaaS platforms and running a software consultancy that produced measurable ROI and sharply reduced downtime. Currently Lead Engineer and Engineering Manager at Herrmann, he combines hands-on Ruby/Rails and full‑stack expertise with people leadership—having progressed from contractor and developer roles through senior engineering and team lead positions at Shop-Ware, PRA, and Barclaycard. He has launched consumer and enterprise integrations (notably pioneering Walmart gift card integration for an employee benefits program) and excels at translating technical tradeoffs into business outcomes. Known for optimizing delivery processes and bridging stakeholder communication, he thrives where product, operations, and engineering intersect to drive predictable, high-impact results.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (77)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
colinross/rails
Nov 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 years 11 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
colinross/file_valet
Oct 2019 - May 2022
A json api micro service for associating persisted objects with a qr code 'claim ticket'
Contributions:12 PRs, 11 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 7 months
apimicro-serviceclaimjson-apijson
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