Collin Street
Builder at Twilio Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCollin Street is a full-stack software engineer based in San Francisco with seven years of experience building APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Currently a Builder at Twilio, he combines backend engineering with data wrangling, web scraping, OCR, geocoding, and AWS automation to solve messy, real-world data problems. He is an active open-source contributor to the widely used disease-sh API, where he built and refactored scrapers, added therapeutics endpoints, and improved caching and error handling to reduce latency. Collin also mentors aspiring engineers through UC Berkeley Extension, and has shipped scalable systems in hackathons and personal projects that demonstrate production-grade design (e.g., a reviews microservice handling 1k RPS over 50M records). He brings a practical, data-first mindset and a knack for turning brittle manual workflows into reliable automated services.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
CUNY-IBM Watson Case Competition, CUNY-IBM Watson Case Competition at Baruch CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA, Justice Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Justice Studies at John Jay College (CUNY)Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
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Github Skills (17)
cheerio10
javascript10
apidoc10
webscraping10
axios10
api10
nodejs10
data-acquisition10
virus9
corona9
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co9
covid-testing9
testing8
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
disease-sh/API
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
API for Current cases and more stuff about COVID-19 and Influenza
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 77 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Collin primarily contributed to the back-end of the API project. Their work included creating and modifying scrapers to collect data from various government sources related to COVID-19 and influenza, specifically focusing on Mexico and Canada. They refactored existing code to utilize different data sources, and updated test cases to align with changes in the data structure. The user also integrated new endpoints for therapeutics data, demonstrating proficiency in data acquisition and API development within the project's scope.
apicasesredisdiscorddiscord-server
Collin-St/API
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
API for Current cases and more stuff about COVID-19 and Influenza
Contributions:23 pushes, 23 branches in 1 month
apicasesinfluenza
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