Summary
Colton 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 Conservatory
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Oberlin College
Master of Music - MM Oboe Performance, Master of Music - MM Oboe Performance at San Francisco Conservatory of Music