Colton Potter
Senior Frontend Engineer at American Specialty Health
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColton Potter is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in San Francisco with eight years building full-stack web products, from startup MVPs to production-grade front-end systems. He blends a CS foundation with hands-on experience in React, Vue, TypeScript, Node.js, and GCP to deliver payment automation, auth systems, and robust testing/CI workflows that reduce manual work and post-release bugs. As a former founder and engineering lead, he’s comfortable owning end-to-end architecture and managing small teams to ship user-focused features. Trained as a professional musician, he brings uncommon strengths in collaboration, empathy, and disciplined practice to software craftsmanship. Constantly focused on uplifting teammates, he pairs technical intuition with a bias for building systems that scale and make day-to-day work better.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music - BM Oboe Performance, Bachelor of Music - BM Oboe Performance at Oberlin ConservatoryBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Oberlin CollegeMaster of Music - MM Oboe Performance, Master of Music - MM Oboe Performance at San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Github Skills (5)
openstreetmap8
crossword7
commons4
marketplace3
trading2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Cpotter2/StellaStunners
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
This is the Oberlin College public GitHub for the Stella's Stunners website.
Contributions:64 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 5 months
crosswordcommonsstella
lamchiminhmark/ObieLocal
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
Map interface for events happening in Oberlin College
Contributions:3 releases, 325 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 8 months
eventsmapopenstreetmap
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