Colin Walker
Senior Software Development Engineer, S3 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Walker is a senior software engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems with 11 years of experience and eight focused on storage and large-scale services. At AWS he led design and delivery for the greenfield S3 Express One Zone product, driving projects across indexing and storage with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, and correctness. Comfortable in Rust and cloud-native environments, he also contributed DevOps improvements to Helm deployment tooling—adding dry-run, canary, and status features—to make releases safer and more flexible. Known for technical leadership and mentorship, he excels at taking features from design to production while collaborating across teams. Outside of work he’s an avid mountain biker and skier in Vancouver and brings a practical, user-focused mindset shaped in part by earlier experience as a sailing instructor.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
French Immersion High School Diploma, French Immersion High School Diploma at Vancouver Technical SecondaryBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy and Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy and Economics at Simon Fraser U
French, English
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
githubaction-workflow10
helm10
deployment-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
dockers7
docker7
testing5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
deliverybot/helm
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
GitHub action for deploying Helm charts.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 89 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on enhancing the deployment capabilities of the Helm action. Their contributions included adding features for deployment status updates, incorporating dry-run options, and implementing canary deployment support. They also made several fixes related to deployment configuration, including handling value files and environment variables.
deployingchartshelmdeploymenthelm-charts
musefind/mobx-models
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:92 commits, 13 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 months
reactmobx
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