Collin Kindrom
Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Agents) at Cresta
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCollin Kindrom is a forward deployed engineer and founder with 15 years of engineering experience who builds AI agents that learn by interacting with their environment. He transitioned from eight years of full‑stack web and mobile development into deep learning and computer vision in 2017, turning satellite imagery into operational maps and contributing to patentable R&D at Maxar. More recently he’s combined symbolic theory-building with hands‑on prototypes for robotics and benchmarked those ideas on abstraction and reasoning challenges like ARC-AGI-1. At Marco Polo and Cresta he pushed product R&D boundaries—rapid‑prototyping LLM-driven features and new UIs—while also improving testing and QA practices in open-source tooling. Based in Denver, he pairs aerospace training with philosophy of science inspired approaches to create interpretable, environment‑grounded AI systems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (16)
spec10
automated-tests10
testing10
coffeescript9
php9
javascript9
wordpress9
react6
underscorejs6
activerecord6
react-router6
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backbonejs6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
atom/find-and-replace
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Find and replace in a single buffer and in the project
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 20 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Collin primarily contributed to improving the testing framework and test coverage within the repository. Their commits include refactoring test files, adjusting test configurations, and implementing new tests to ensure the application's functionality. These changes focused on improving the robustness and reliability of the testing suite by addressing identified issues. The user’s work directly contributes to the quality assurance process.
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colllin/urlspoiler
May 2011 - Sep 2014
Contributions:26 commits in 3 years 4 months
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