Colton Piper
Software Engineer 3 at TomTom
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColton Piper is a Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building full-stack and data-focused services at TomTom, blending a strong applied math background (MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics) with practical engineering skills. He’s proficient in Python, SQL/PostGIS, and the PERN stack, and has extended into Scala, Spark, Scrapy, and unit testing while contributing to production data pipelines. Colton’s academic work exposed him to high-performance computing (CUDA, OpenMP), C++, Julia and research-driven problem solving, which he leverages to optimize spatial analyses and automated workflows. Comfortable across backend, frontend and data engineering domains, he pairs mathematical rigor with an appetite for learning new frameworks and tools to deliver reliable, testable systems.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Applied and Computational Mathematics at Florida State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at Plymouth State University
English
Github Skills (15)
location10
names10
flags10
openstreetmap10
scraper10
overpass-api10
scrapy10
javascript10
canonicalization10
internet10
spider10
wikidata10
geojson10
python10
transit10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ckpiper/name-suggestion-index
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Canonical common brand names, operators, transit and flags for OpenStreetMap.
Contributions:10 PRs, 409 pushes, 333 branches in 1 year 7 months
ckpiper/alltheplaces
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A set of spiders and scrapers to extract location information from places that post their location on the internet.
Contributions:479 pushes, 401 branches in 1 year 6 months
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