Collin Gress
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCollin Gress is a software development engineer in Seattle with a decade of professional experience building full-stack and research-driven systems. He blends industry-grade engineering at Amazon with academic research in AI and high-performance computing from UIUC, where he also holds a Master’s in Computer Science. His background includes modernizing large web applications and building internal profiling and CI tooling at Wolfram, alongside hands-on HPC and data-science research projects. Collin is comfortable spanning backend services, performance tooling, and research software engineering—translating experimental ideas into production-ready code. He brings a practical eye for performance and automation, having implemented profiling systems and CI pipelines that improved developer velocity. Colleagues value him for combining rigorous research habits with a pragmatic, shipping-focused engineering style.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Statistics and Computer Science, BS, Statistics and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (29)
text-analytics10
text-analysis9
semantics9
language-modeling9
bit9
nlp8
structured-data8
inverted-index8
word-embeddings8
graph-algorithms8
pattern-recognition8
exploratory8
search-engine7
text-classification7
cpp7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gress2/unpack
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:113 commits, 30 PRs, 78 pushes in 10 months
unpackinghigh-performance-computingvectorsmachine-learningperformance
vreverdy/bit-algorithms
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
An exploratory implementation of bit overloads of the C++ standard algorithms
Contributions:109 commits, 22 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 months
standard-algorithmscppexploratoryc-plus-plusheader-only
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