Nick Colgan
CTO at Soto Digital
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolNick Colgan is a seasoned full-stack engineer and current CTO based in Minneapolis with 16 years of experience building web technologies across frontend, backend, and shared libraries. He is fluent in dynamic languages and multiple frameworks, comfortable shipping frontend code, backend APIs, shell scripts and reusable libraries, and has consistently operated within agile teams. Rising from hands-on development roles to engineering team lead and now CTO, he blends technical depth with leadership in small-to-midsize product environments. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often bridges gaps between product needs and implementation details, favoring maintainable, testable solutions. An early entrepreneur via Colgan Consulting and a background that includes customer-facing roles, he brings both technical craft and real-world user empathy to engineering decisions.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
marketplace10
cart9
ruby9
currency9
chat9
ruby-on-rails9
spree9
rake9
oms8
multi-tenant8
rails8
ecommerce8
react-native8
coercion7
javascript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ncolgan/dotfiles
May 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
FoundryMakes/forecaster
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:11 PRs, 16 pushes, 8 branches in 5 days
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