Dave Collins
Sr. Engineering Manager at Upstart
Monument, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDave Collins is a senior engineering manager with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable cloud platforms and leading cross-functional teams at Upstart. He oversees AppSec, pre-production environments, and CI/CD/developer portals, driving secure development practices, advanced testing infrastructures, and automation that accelerates engineering velocity. With an MBA from the University of Minnesota and a BS from UW–Madison, he blends business acumen with technical depth to scale teams and complex enterprise migrations. Colleagues rely on him to translate security and reliability requirements into developer-friendly platforms that enable experimentation without sacrificing safety. Based in Monument, Colorado, he is known for mentoring exceptional managers who in turn deliver high-impact, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
BS, BS at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMBA, MBA at University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management
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Github Skills (109)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
municipalparkingservices/logstash-logger
Jun 2016 - Mar 2021
Ruby logger that writes logstash events
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 10 months
eventsloggerlogger-rubyfluentdruby
DaveCollinsJr/ros2_documentation
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 24 days
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