Colin Viebrock
Product Owner at silverorange
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Viebrock is a product-focused technologist with 14 years of experience blending hands-on backend engineering, DevOps, and product ownership across startups and mid-size firms. Currently a Product Owner at silverorange in Toronto, he moves fluidly between managing product direction and shipping code, reflecting recent dual roles as developer and product lead. His open-source contributions include meaningful Laravel ecosystem work—improving core framework behavior, robust HTTP handling, Elasticsearch tooling, and a popular sluggable package—showing deep PHP and infrastructure expertise. He has led teams and technical strategy at companies like Priceline and Bold Commerce, and has a history of founding and running technical operations dating back to easyDNS. Curious about system internals, he often focuses on maintainability and tooling (tests, refactors, deploy/cleanup tasks) rather than just feature work. With a BA from the University of Toronto and a pragmatic engineering sensibility, he excels at turning messy technical debt into reliable product outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, French, Diploma, French at The University of British ColumbiaBA, BA at University of TorontoDiploma, Building Renovation, Diploma, Building Renovation at George Brown Polytechnic
English, French
Github Skills (34)
json10
character-encoding10
laravel-mix10
amazon-elasticsearch10
command-line-interface10
schema-design10
laravel10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
command-line10
elasticsearch10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mailerlite/laravel-elasticsearch
May 2015 - Oct 2022
An easy way to use the official Elastic Search client in your Laravel applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 59 commits, 68 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the development of command-line utilities related to Elasticsearch management within a Laravel application. Their work involved creating, deleting, and managing aliases and mappings for Elasticsearch indices, demonstrated through the implementation of various console commands and associated test cases. The user also worked on the test suites for the commands using mock objects. These changes suggest a focus on integrating Elasticsearch with the Laravel application, likely involving tasks such as managing indexing, search, and data manipulation.
elasticsearch-clientphpsearch-enginelaravel-elasticsearch
cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable
Jun 2013 - Oct 2022
Easy creation of slugs for your Eloquent models in Laravel
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 467 commits in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Laravel-based package. Their commits demonstrate the cleaning up and refactoring of existing code, removing custom exception classes. They turned off deferral, added comments and implemented functionality to support creating unique slugs for Eloquent models in Laravel. These changes indicate a focus on the internal workings and the maintainability of the package.
slugifyphpslugslugseloquent-models
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