Colin Schoen
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Schoen is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years building backend and full‑stack systems across consumer apps and service infrastructure at companies like Uber, Postmates, Yelp, and Google. He focuses on scalable, production-grade backend engineering for consumer experiences—most recently shaping the Uber Eats stack—and has a track record of shipping reliability and security fixes. Early leadership of the Simple Machines Forum open‑source project shows a long-standing commitment to community software and practical security hardening, including fixes to image proxy vulnerabilities and group management features. Colin pairs hands‑on coding with mentorship and teaching experience from UC Berkeley, where he helped run CS61A labs and tooling for large courses. Comfortable across monoliths and distributed services, he brings pragmatic problem solving and attention to edge cases that reduce incidents in high‑traffic consumer products.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English
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Github Skills (20)
mysql10
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php10
forum10
laravel9
phpmyadmin9
database8
database-administration8
databases8
it-security8
security8
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admin8
mysqli6
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SimpleMachines/SMF
Dec 2012 - Jan 2018
Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is free and open-source community forum software, delivering professional grade features in a package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 48 commits, 180 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to back-end functionalities, focusing on enhancing user group management and addressing security vulnerabilities within the Simple Machines Forum (SMF) codebase. Their work involved implementing an `ignoreProtected` parameter for removing and adding members to groups, providing a fix for installer issues and rectifying potential security flaws in the image proxy. They also updated the team member credits in `Sources/Who.php` and corrected minor language issues in the admin panel.
professionalforumforum-softwaresmfmachines
colinschoen/VASOPS
Oct 2013 - Feb 2016
Contributions:679 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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