Colin Campbell

Software Engineer

Toronto, CANADA

Resume

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Professional Summary

Accomplished Engineering Leader with a proven track record of driving
high-performance teams to deliver impactful results. Known for fostering
a culture of innovation, collaboration, and fun while navigating complex
technical challenges. Recognized for being an empathetic leader who
values open communication and actively listens to team members’ needs
and concerns. Dedicated to cultivating talent and creating an
environment where individuals thrive and organizations succeed.
Experienced in leading cross-functional teams and delivering projects on
time and within budget. Ready to leverage expertise in software
development, architecture, and team leadership to drive excellence in
your organization.

Employment History:

Director Engineering, TUCOWS/Wavelo //2021-2024

-   Shipped Barndoor, an api gateway implementation for Tucows/Dish
    collaboration that manages ingress and distributes it to internal
    microservices.
-   Champion of common infrastructure project that provides Tucows
    engineering teams with simple and reusable infrastructure as code
    solutions to common architecture problems with terraform and salt.
-   Lead on Project Hoofprint (blueprint) which laid the groundwork for
    the widespread adoption of distributed miroservice architecture at
    Tucows across all lines of business.

Manager Engineering, TUCOWS/Domains // 2017-2021

-   Managed design & development team for Remootify, an event scheduling
    service that is successfully being used by key Tucows lines of
    business such as Hover and Ting Mobile.
-   Influenced internal process changes to ci/cd pipelines that are now
    widely accepted across the entire company.
-   Lead a team through the design and development of a domain admin
    application that showcased a new frontend stack featuring
    React/Flux, which later evolved to vuejs/vuext and is now the basis
    for modern UI work at Tucows.

Senior Engineer, Tucows Domains // 2015-2017

-   Delivered key frontend components for GDPR readiness including
    tieredaccess.com and RDAP admin tool.
-   Provided improvements to aging solr implementation.
-   Contributed to OpenSRS Domain Platform shim that allowed Tucows to
    ingest 1.5 million domains from MelbourneIT acquisition.
-   Collaborated with Automattic/Wordpress team on an OpenSRS Domains
    Platform integration that led Tucows to acquire wordpress.com domain
    registrations from GoDaddy.

Senior Software Developer, FIRE ENGINE RED // 2012 - 2015

-   Trusted individual contributor on engineering team committed to
    keeping America’s colleges and universities stocked with fresh
    minds.
-   Implemented admission and alumni search solution to flagship CRM
    product, leveraging apache solr to deliver instant search results on
    multiple user data points for (near) real time decision making.
-   Provided guidance and leadership on testing & refactoring of legacy
    codebase.

Senior Software Developer, MEDICAL PHARMACIES // 2003 - 2012

-   Technical Lead on a small team of engineers(3) dedicated to
    improving patient outcomes.
-   First to market on innovative mobile pharmacy interaction tools.
-   Delivered a patient aware drug inventory system servicing thousands
    of beds that drastically reduced medication errors and pharmacy
    waste.
-   Implemented a highly available data warehouse solution across 30+
    retail locations, providing the organization with much needed
    business and patient care insights.

Notable Skills:

-   Team Building, Leadership, Mentoring
-   Programming, Architecture, Design
-   CI/CD, Testing, Automation

Technology

-   Python, Javascript, Perl, PHP, C
-   React + Flux, Vuejs + Vuext
-   Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL
-   Docker, Nomad, Consul, Vault, Kubernetes
-   Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana

Education:

Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology // 1999 - 2002

-   Computer Programming and Analysis Diploma
-   Applications Developer specialization
-   Internet Specialist specialization

Interests:

-   Captain of my “D” league championship hockey team
-   Guitar player extraordinaire
-   Lifelong vimrc tinkerer

Contact

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  -    colin@elusivelabs.com
  -    https://eluslivelabs.com/colin
  -    https://linkedin.com/in/colincode
  -    https://github.com/ccmpb

References supplied on request.