Collin Dillinger
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
DeWitt, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCollin Dillinger is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience building and modernizing large-scale platforms, most recently driving modernization of Amazon’s Store hosting systems and now contributing at GitHub. He blends deep distributed-systems and cloud infrastructure expertise with a pragmatic focus on automation, developer experience, and long-term maintainability, consistently improving performance, scalability, and developer velocity. As founder of Grades LLC, he turned a product idea into a profitable education-data startup—owning FOIA automation, full-stack development, data pipelines, and growth—which gave him rare end-to-end product and operational perspective alongside his enterprise experience. Based in DeWitt, Michigan, Collin favors problems at the intersection of reliability and developer productivity, where thoughtful engineering unlocks faster innovation for whole organizations. He’s known for partnering across teams to simplify complex systems and raising the operational bar while keeping an eye on sustainable, measurable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Computer Science, Associate’s Degree Computer Science at Lansing Community CollegeBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (20)
apply8
aws8
visual-studio-extension6
amazon6
garmin6
typescript6
user-guide6
kubernetes6
terraform5
cloud-infrastructure5
single-file5
development-kit5
fitness5
infrastructure4
visual-studio3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CDillinger/ParcelExtractor
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 issues in 1 year 1 month
CDillinger/msugrades.com
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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