Ian Collins
Technical Team Lead at OBXtek
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Collins is a seasoned Technical Team Lead with 11 years of experience building and managing web platforms, CMS integrations, and intuitive user interfaces across government and nonprofit sectors. Based in Virginia, he has led teams at OBXtek and SAIC and previously managed BrainLine.org’s full stack needs, combining backend PHP/MySQL work with frontend design sensibilities. He favors pragmatic, forward-thinking solutions that avoid reinventing the wheel while improving existing tools—evidenced by front-end contributions to the popular ng2-dragula library, where he improved configurability and testability. Ian blends hands-on coding, architecture oversight, and mentorship to deliver maintainable systems that scale over time. His background in computer science with a graphic design minor gives him a rare mix of technical rigor and UI/UX intuition.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, minor in Graphic Design, Bachelors, Computer Science, minor in Graphic Design at James Madison University
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Github Skills (13)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
angular10
quill6
primeng6
html6
css6
twitter-bootstrap6
google-chrome6
glyph-icons6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
valor-software/ng2-dragula
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Simple drag and drop with dragula
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on enhancing the `ng2-dragula` library's functionality and maintainability. They introduced options for configuring the mirror container, enabling it to be set locally or via an input. The user also improved code structure by setting default values for options and refactored the method used to set the local mirror, making it easier to test. Furthermore, they updated and expanded the unit tests to cover all areas of the `DragulaDirective`.
drag-and-dropdragulaangularreact-dnddrop
armydotmil/leaders
Nov 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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