Colin Tinney
Senior Front-end Engineer at Square
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Tinney is a Senior Front-end Engineer with a decade of experience building web experiences in financial technology, currently shaping customer-facing products at Square. He holds an Honours BSc in Computer Science from Carleton University and brings a pragmatic, long-term mindset to engineering decisions that balance quality and delivery. Colin is passionate about creating positive user experiences and continuous improvement, often applying lessons from teaching and co-op software roles early in his career to mentor peers and refine front-end practices. Comfortable across modern web stacks, he blends rigorous academic roots with practical production experience at scale. An unobvious strength is his consistency: multiple co-op and teaching stints show he repeatedly turns learning roles into lasting product and team impact.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science - Honours, with High Distinction (Co-op), 10.50 CGPA (A-), Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science - Honours, with High Distinction (Co-op), 10.50 CGPA (A-) at Carleton University
English
Github Skills (200)
pnpm10
switch10
testing10
autocomplete10
spotify-api10
react-component10
marquee10
espn10
filtering10
scroller10
alfred10
tabula10
gatsbyjs10
autosuggest10
combobox10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cdtinney/spune
Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
Browser-based Spotify display for your living room TV. Inspired by Zune.
Contributions:280 commits, 105 PRs, 287 pushes in 3 years 3 months
herokureactliving-roombrowservisualizer
pvme/preset-maker
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
A tool created for making preset loadout images for the PvME guides.
Contributions:11 reviews, 49 PRs, 54 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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