Ken Colton
Chief Executive Officer at Medal
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKen Colton is a product-driven tech executive and entrepreneur with 12+ years building consumer and operations-critical systems, now serving as CEO of Medal after rising through engineering and CTO roles there. He combines hands-on full-stack development (frontend, backend, infra) with strategic product leadership, having led teams of 60+ to scale gaming capture and sharing for millions of users. His background includes platform and cloud infrastructure work at Grubhub—owning high-availability frameworks and a notifications-as-a-service platform—and building end-to-end operations and analytics at Material World to drive multimillion-dollar growth. Known for translating player-focused product intuition (and a borderline obsessive knowledge of Rocket League and Factorio logistics) into measurable business and engineering outcomes, he hires and mentors strong teams that ship reliable, delightful experiences.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (188)
react-native-app10
styled-components10
remote-config10
in-app-purchase10
google-auth10
browserify10
backend10
receipt-validation10
firebase10
html-webpack-plugin10
auth10
javascript10
push-notifications10
realtime-database10
django-admin10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kcolton/RLBotPythonExample
Mar 2019 - Jul 2023
Example of a python bot using the RLBot framework
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
botpythonrlbotpython-bot
bad-panda/stream-chat-react-native
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
React Native Chat Components
Contributions:8 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
react-nativereactchatreact-native-chat
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