Thibaut Colar
Staff Software Engineer at Brex
Federal Way, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolThibaut Colar is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years building and scaling backend platforms, developer tooling, and e‑commerce systems across startups and larger enterprises. He brings deep systems experience in Go, Java, cloud infrastructure and developer experience, and has repeatedly transformed legacy monoliths into high‑throughput services while improving observability and reliability. A pragmatic technical lead and early employee at multiple startups, he combines hands‑on coding with ops ownership—having reduced onboarding from days to hours and built widely used local/cloud dev stacks. He champions pragmatic OSS, lean/agile practices, and the “best tool for the job” approach, with a track record integrating with large platforms like SAP and shipping infra that supports tens of thousands of requests per second. Based in Federal Way, WA, he pairs broad language fluency (Go, Fantom, Java, Python) with a knack for developer productivity and operationalizing complex distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Introduction to Data science (Coursera), Data Science, Introduction to Data science (Coursera), Data Science at University of WashingtonDUT, EE, Industrial technologies & automation, DUT, EE, Industrial technologies & automation at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-FranceDUT AS, Computer sciences, DUT AS, Computer sciences at University of Lille 1 Sciences and TechnologyCloud Computing Specialization, Cloud computing / distributed systems, Cloud Computing Specialization, Cloud computing / distributed systems at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (141)
database10
sqlite10
development-environment10
cordova10
oracle10
javascript9
ionic9
browser9
sql9
data-mapper9
code-editor9
postgresql9
coverage9
terminal-app9
sap9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tcolar/longhorn
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
A custom split Ortho keyboard I built
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
splitkeyboardime
tcolar/fantomidemodule
Jun 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 2 months
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