Colin Vanlang
Engineer at Sierra
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Vanlang is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling product teams in the Bay Area, currently engineering at Sierra after leading Watershed’s Product Applications EPD teams. He has a track record of growing teams from small to 30+ engineers, launching high-impact product areas (supply chain, finance, reporting, and AI), and maintaining strong retention through periods of rapid change and cultural pivots. Colin combines a rigorous analytical background (MS in Structural Engineering from Stanford) with hands-on product engineering experience from Dropbox and Lattice, enabling him to balance fast iteration with long-term strategy. He’s known for cultivating engineering leadership—mentorship, transparent goal-setting, and talent processes—that amplifies organizational performance. An uncommon aspect of his background is a transition from structural engineering in architecture firms to leading software product organizations, which informs his systems-thinking approach to product and team design.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack AcademyBS Civil Engineering, BS Civil Engineering at Stanford University
Vietnamese, English
Github Skills (23)
reader10
pdf10
pdf-generation10
minecraft9
pdf-reader9
ubuntu8
chroot8
javascript8
debian7
crouton7
chromeos7
shell6
chrome6
linux6
gmail5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
covlllp/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:129 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
covlllp/setup_playground
Dec 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
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