Patrick Collins
Auditor, Engineer, Developer Advocate, & Co-Founder
Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Collins is a web3-focused engineer, auditor, and developer advocate with nine years of experience building developer tools, security audits, and front-end experiences. As co-founder of Cyfrin and Chain Accel and a former Lead Developer Advocate at Chainlink Labs, he blends startup leadership with deep technical advocacy to help smart contract ecosystems scale. He contributes to open-source front-end projects—modernizing Hugo themes and adding UX features like dynamic navbars and image galleries—showing a knack for polished, multilingual UIs and RTL support. Based in Georgia, Patrick pairs practical engineering (from Python automation and workflow migrations to CSS refinements) with a passion for educating developers, reflecting both product-minded and security-first approaches. An often-overlooked strength is his cross-disciplinary experience spanning quant support, developer tooling, and community building, which helps him translate complex crypto primitives into usable developer products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
English
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
hugo10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
hugo-theme9
javascript9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pacollins/hugo-future-imperfect-slim
Apr 2019 - Nov 2021
Multilingual Blogging Theme for Hugo | Check the Wiki for Documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 105 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the theme's styling and user interface components. They focused on modernizing the theme's CSS, fixing display issues, and ensuring proper rendering of elements. The user also addressed layout problems and incorporated improvements to the user interface to enhance user experience. Furthermore, the user was involved in refining aspects like the handling of social icons and adapting the site for RTL languages.
staticmanhugobloggingcontact-formwiki
jpescador/hugo-future-imperfect
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
A ported theme with some extras for the Hugo static website engine
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 80 PRs, 53 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the Hugo theme by adding and modifying frontend elements. Their work involved the implementation of a contact form with associated hover effects and styling modifications in CSS. They also added a new page type, dynamic navbar titles, and integrated Fancybox for image galleries. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing the user interface and improving the overall user experience of the Hugo-based website.
hugowebsite-engineextrascontact-formhugo-theme
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