Colin Smith
Senior Backend Developer at Monitise
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorColin Smith is a Senior Backend Developer and Technical Architect based in London with 11 years of focused experience building resilient server-side systems and APIs. He has held senior engineering and architecture roles at Kahoot! and Monitise, bringing a pragmatic “can do” approach to translating business needs into scalable technical designs. Comfortable working across stakeholder levels, Colin blends hands-on development with long-term architecture strategy, emphasizing simplicity, usability and measurable business outcomes. His background spans finance and fintech through to consumer platforms, giving him a rare combination of enterprise-grade robustness and product-minded thinking. Known as a proactive problem-solver, he thrives at the interface between business and technology, turning complex requirements into clear technical specifications and deliverable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (31)
propagation10
java10
qbcore-framework10
kamon10
reward10
monitoring9
scala9
storekit9
opentracing9
distributed-tracing9
anonymous9
obsolete9
otel9
in-app-purchase8
recurly8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cheekychops/ravepartyradio
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
:radio: Rave Party Radio
Contributions:223 commits, 4 PRs, 169 pushes in 3 years 3 months
radiopartyrave
mobitroll/recurly-java-library
Sep 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 26 PRs, 88 pushes in 7 years 2 months
javarecurlyjava-library
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