Colm Quinn
Director Of Engineering, API Experience at MongoDB
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolColm Quinn is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of professional experience building full-stack, distributed systems and leading API-first teams at MongoDB. He combines hands-on engineering—designing API versioning, auto-generated docs, and provider integrations like Terraform/CDK—with people leadership, having built and mentored cross-functional teams responsible for Atlas Admin API integrations. His background includes architecting SaaS time-series analytics on Kubernetes and moving organizations toward CI/CD, TDD, and Git workflows. Customer-focused and collaborative, he repeatedly translates complex, multi-year product initiatives from ideation to reliable production delivery. Notably, he blends formal training in software specification with practical experience shipping cloud and private-cloud orchestration tools, giving him a rare mix of rigor and delivery-oriented pragmatism.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering Software Specification Methods, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering Software Specification Methods at University of Limerick
German, Irish
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Github Skills (73)
terraform10
infrastructure10
go-client10
atlas10
hashicorp10
mongodb-cli10
golang10
cli10
rds10
nodejs10
mongodb-atlas10
mongodb10
leaflet10
amazon-web-services10
terraform-provider10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
colm-quinn/pgp-testing
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:28 PRs, 73 pushes, 15 branches in 24 days
colm-quinn/mongodb-scripts
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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