Colin Stearns
Director Of Application Engineering
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolColin Stearns is a Director of Application Engineering based in Boulder with a decade of experience building high-throughput real-time enterprise systems, web services, and data validation/monitoring platforms. He blends hands-on polyglot engineering—shipping production services in Rust, Scala, and Java and tooling in Python, Haskell, and Bash—with product design, project management, and public speaking. As a former Twitter and Gnip engineer and co-founder of a startup, he pairs startup agility with proven engineering leadership, currently contracting and leading teams at Atlas Digital Group and Wyyerd Group. Colin’s background in physics and electrical/computer engineering gives him a systems-oriented approach to complex problems and an appetite for elegant, reliable architectures. He also enjoys teaching and mentoring, often translating deep technical concepts into pragmatic team practices. A practical generalist, he frequently bridges backend systems and front-end experiences, having built webapps in TypeScript and Elm.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (69)
http-api10
rust-api10
client-library10
rust10
query-builder10
stripe10
api9
database9
compiler9
postgresql9
cargo9
extensible9
orm9
mysql9
pulsar9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wyyerd/lob
Jan 2020 - Oct 2024
Client for https://lob.com mail service
Contributions:4 PRs, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
mailsmtpemailmail-servicelob
stearnsc/rust-future
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.