Colin Shevlin
Senior Software Engineer at Sparrow
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolColin Shevlin is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling web and mobile products, currently focused on end-to-end leave management at Sparrow. He has a track record of growing engineering teams (6 to 18+) while preserving code quality and driving architectural decisions, including leading a backend redesign to handle rapid scale. Hands-on across stacks—Python/FastAPI, Django, Scala, React/TypeScript, iOS—and experienced with Kubernetes, he blends product empathy (former bilingual teacher) with technical leadership. Colin pairs delivery-focused process improvements like continuous delivery with mentor-driven team development, and he’s pursued advanced study in CS and systems programming (Master’s and Recurse Center work in Rust networking). Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who enjoys both low-level problem solving and improving how teams ship.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Type 22 Initial Elementary Certificate, Type 29 Bilingual Certificate, Bilingual and Multilingual Education, Type 22 Initial Elementary Certificate, Type 29 Bilingual Certificate, Bilingual and Multilingual Education at Dominican UniversityHonors Bachelor of Arts, History, Spanish, International Studies, Philosophy, Honors Bachelor of Arts, History, Spanish, International Studies, Philosophy at Saint Louis UniversityNetworking with Rust, Networking with Rust at Recurse CenterUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignWeb Development, Web Development at Dev Bootcamp
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (62)
keyboard9
boilerplate8
starter-kit8
scaffolding8
mod-manager7
nodejs7
ios7
progressive-enhancement7
firestore7
mason7
firebase7
graphql6
service-worker6
graphene-python6
serverless6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cwshevlin/dotfiles
Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
cwshevlin/django-base
Jun 2020 - Oct 2024
A base with settings how I like them.
Contributions:3 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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