Tobin-campbell
Chief Technology Officer at Althea
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTobin-campbell is a seasoned technology leader and Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling teams and systems from the ground up. Currently serving as CTO in Fort Collins, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic architecture and product collaboration to drive reliable delivery. He has a proven track record at Redox—rising from founding engineer to Head of Engineering—where he doubled team size, instituted career ladders, and embedded with squads to unblock execution. Technically pragmatic, he contributed to open-source tooling like Automattic’s popular kue project, improving test coverage and job-level control to increase queue stability. Tobin favors collaborative engineering cultures and measurable process improvements, pairing a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy with a maker’s curiosity for robust systems. He’s known for moving fluidly between code and leadership, preferring to solve problems alongside the teams he empowers.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Sacramento Waldorf SchoolBA, Major in Mathematics and Philosophy, BA, Major in Mathematics and Philosophy at Whitman College
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
nodejs10
job-queue10
redis10
testing10
javascript9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/kue
Dec 2015 - Jan 2017
Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Tobin-campbell's contributions primarily involve testing and improving the `kue` job queue system. They added unit tests for various components, including the core `kue.js` file, `redis.js` functionalities, and the internal workings of the queue. Furthermore, the user implemented features like controlling job events on a per-job basis and modifying the promotion lock TTL, demonstrating a focus on stability and flexibility within the queue's operation.
redisnode-jsjob-queuekuejob
100health/kue
Dec 2015 - Jan 2018
Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js.
Contributions:10 PRs, 20 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 1 month
redisnode-jsmessage-queuejob-queuekue
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