Colleen Lake
Developer Advocate
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColleen Lake is a developer advocate with 10 years of experience building developer communities, technical content, and product-driven programs from Chicago. She has led Developer Relations teams and scaled engagement—boosting community activity by 30% at Particle—while managing large distributed contractor teams and organizing hackathons and webinars that improved onboarding and product adoption. Her background spans hands-on development (MERN, Python, Angular) and product management for blockchain and crowdsourced projects, giving her a rare blend of technical craft and program leadership. Colleen excels at translating community feedback into product improvements and has a track record of turning educational content and events into measurable growth. An early robotics and curriculum developer, she brings a practical maker’s mindset—she’s built hardware projects like a candy-sorting robot and bespoke developer tools—into her advocacy work.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Memorial University, Newfoundland and LabradorEnglish, English at Columbia College Chicago
English
Github Skills (15)
argon10
photon10
particle10
arduino10
electron9
iot9
react-redux1
rocket1
redux-saga1
boilerplate1
react-router1
firebase1
react-redux-firebase1
react1
redux1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
colleenlavin/faceShopper
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:32 PRs, 36 pushes, 12 branches in 8 days
colleenlavin/hackoween
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 11 days
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