Collin Barber
Full Stack Engineer at JT Media LLC - Care Staff Pro
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCollin Barber is a Full Stack Engineer and AI practitioner based in Boston with seven years of experience building production-grade systems that bridge backend platforms, developer tooling, and ML-driven features. He has a track record of shipping performant web apps—cutting page load time from 7s to 2s for a healthcare ATS used across 15 facilities—and architecting low-latency LLM integrations that reduced time-to-first-token by 80% at an OpenAI-backed voice startup. Equally comfortable mentoring and teaching, he served as a TA after building top-performing game-playing agents and ran labs and autograders for large undergraduate classes. His toolkit spans Next.js, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, and async microservice patterns, and he favors pragmatic abstractions that eliminate duplicated code at scale. Outside work he’s a self-described “nerd” with a history of competitive bot design and even built a Java Swing tournament system and a bitwise Othello agent, signaling both systems-level thinking and playful technical curiosity.
7 years of coding experience
Downingtown High School East CampusComputer Science, Computer Science at Penn State BrandywineComputer Science, Computer Science at Boston University
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Github Skills (49)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WeaponMechanics/WeaponMechanicsSignShop
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 7 pushes in 2 years 1 month
CJCrafter/ChatGPT-Java-API
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:13 releases, 7 reviews, 23 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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