Colin Vella
Frontend Tech Lead at Betsson Group
Malta
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Top SchoolColin Vella is a Frontend Tech Lead with 16 years of experience building polished web applications and leading frontend teams at Betsson Group. He blends hands-on full-stack web development with an R&D background in speech synthesis and language processing, and holds a Master's in IT plus a Bachelor's in Mathematics and Computer Science. Colin’s career spans senior technical architecture roles and product-focused frontend engineering, with a long-standing interest in graphics, physical simulation and game design that informs his UI and interaction work. As a hobbyist game developer he created the widely used Stardew Valley level editor tIDE/xTile for XNA, reflecting a practical passion for tooling and retro games. Based in Malta, he’s known for translating research-driven ideas into production-ready interfaces and developer-friendly architectures.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
St Aloysius CollegeBachelor, Bachelor at University of Malta
English, Maltese, Italian, French
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Github Skills (60)
javascript10
typescript10
sketchup8
eagle8
superset8
typechecker8
trainer8
type-check8
amos7
separating-axis-theorem7
authentication7
twine7
angular7
tiled6
cubing6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
colinvella/MinecraftForgeFancyFish
Aug 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
colinvella/tIDE
Nov 2009 - May 2017
Contributions:1188 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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