Colton Weaver
Software Engineer at Stripe
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolColton Weaver is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Stripe with a decade of experience building distributed systems and backend infrastructure from New York. He brings practical expertise in Rust and cloud-native runtimes—evidenced by contributions to the awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime where he refactored crates and improved usability for Lambda HTTP/runtime crates. His background includes internships and engineering roles at AWS and IBM, plus mobile development early in his career, giving him a broad perspective across platforms and services. A Texas A&M computer engineering graduate with a 3.8 GPA, he combines hands-on coding, API design, and team leadership to drive maintainable, production-ready systems. Notably, he blends low-level runtime work with product-focused delivery, making infrastructure improvements that directly help other engineers ship faster.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.8, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.8 at Texas A&M University
English
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Github Skills (6)
aws-lambda10
rust10
back-end-development10
apidoc9
api9
documentation8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
A Rust runtime for AWS Lambda
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 55 reviews, 39 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Colton focused on modifying and maintaining the `aws-lambda-rust-runtime` repository, primarily updating the `lambda-http` and `lambda-runtime` crates. Their contributions included renaming crates, refactoring code, and making error types public to improve usability. They also removed and updated documentation. The user's changes were aimed at improving the structure and maintainability of the Rust-based Lambda runtime.
rustserverlessaws-lambdaruntimerustlang
coltonweaver/ACCPythonCheckers
Oct 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches, 20 issues in 4 years 5 months
pythoncoding-clubpython-beginnerpython-project-beginnerpython3
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