Corin Buchanan-howland
VP Of Engineering at Modulate
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorin Buchanan-howland is a pragmatic engineering leader with 12+ years of experience scaling teams and systems across high-growth e-commerce and platform environments, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Modulate. He combines hands-on coding instincts with strategic product thinking—designing interfaces, federation modes, and cost-saving technical strategies that unlocked multibillion-dollar growth and cut millions in operational spend at Wayfair. Corin excels at building cross-functional teams, setting clear OKRs, and creating mentorship programs that rapidly develop leaders and improve efficiency. He is an active contributor to open-source (notably backend work on the well-known Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup project) and brings a philosophy background that sharpens his focus on problem selection and clear communication. Colleagues describe him as a leader who turns ambiguous challenges into concrete plans while investing deeply in individual career growth.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree (cum laude) Philosophy, Bachelor's degree (cum laude) Philosophy at Lawrence University
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
algorithms5
algorithm5
python4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
crawl/crawl
Mar 2014 - Feb 2018
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:586 commits, 2 PRs, 214 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Corin made significant contributions to the Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup project, specifically focusing on enhancements to the Wanderer starting kit. Their work involved modifying item generation and adjusting character attributes, with code changes concentrated in the `crawl-ref/source` directory, particularly in `ng-wanderer.cc`. They implemented new functionality for adding the god Ru, including new abilities such as Stomp and Apocalypse, and corresponding mechanics for worship. The user also worked on bug fixes and refactoring.
dungeonstonerpgroguelikedungeon-crawl-stone-soup
cbuchananhowland/misc
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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