Colby M. White
Principal full-stack engineer and technical leader
About
Experienced polyglot engineer and team lead with a focus in JavaScript and Java. Comfortable in multiple layers of an application’s stack including front- end, back-end and DevOps development.
Work Experience
Staff Software Engineer
Highlights
- Fractal is a venture studio creating vertical SaaS companies.
- Worked with the portfolio's CTOs in order to coach and advise companies on effectively creating software and teams from scratch.
- Created architecture best practices that served the basis of the portfolio's startup products.
- Led workshops on architecture design, interviewing, domain modeling, and other topics relevant to early-stage startups.
- Worked with several companies to simplify processes in order to maximize velocity.
Principal Software Engineer
Highlights
- Led team tasked with integrating legacy fundraising product with Facebook Fundraisers in increase adoption
- Created tool for customer wealth calculations that heavily leveraged Kafka for asynchronous processing
- Led front-end team for latest donation form product aimed at allowing users to customize look and feel of forms
- Prompted the formation of a company UI Guild in order to spread UI best practices among teams in multiple locations
- Led cross-team presentations to educate Austin’s previously back-end teams on UI development and testing
- Led non-engineering team in efforts to modernize cross-product strategies for help content
- Served as engineering contact with external departments for the presentation and deployment of help content
Independent Contractor
May 2016 – May 2017
Contract Senior Software Engineer
Highlights
- Completed work for different companies: Whole Foods (Austin), Nike (Portland) and Xferall (Austin)
- Worked on different types of projects, including front-end, back-end and DevOps tasks
- Used common Java frameworks (Spring, Guice, JAX-RS) in order to quickly build web-based microservices
- Maintained a ReactJS-based web application while prototyping a React Native mobile app
Senior Software Engineer
Highlights
- Contributed features as a senior member of the development team for company’s Google Apps Backup product
- Created Chef recipes to help enforce consistency between the team’s multiple environments, including local developer-focused Vagrant machines and production stacks
- Diagnosed and corrected front-end performance issues in order to scale SaaS application for large, enterprise customers
Software Developer
Highlights
- Developed infrastructure and libraries for browser-based Selenium testing of a SaaS application
- Coordinated REST-driven interaction between dynamically scaled microservices of different languages (Java and JavaScript)
- Created Vagrant-based environments to encapsulate dependencies and encourage rapid, iterative development
- Built several custom Gradle and Rake plugins to put project’s deployment procedures into code
Software Developer
Highlights
- Built RESTful APIs to facilitate communication between multiple types of devices in order to sync several types of data
- Used OSGI platform for deployment of Java software to allow for dynamic removal and inclusion of different modules
- Created XMPP messaging schemas to facilitate communication between thermostat and mobile devices
- Implemented user interface designs via Qt on an embedded device
- Developed in-house admin application leveraging the Django framework
Volunteer
Freelance Software Engineer
Projects
- edgebound.dev: A blog to chroncle thoughts and brainstorm around edge technologies and Jamstack concepts.
- Harris County Booking Data Gathering: An Open Austin serverless project that accumulates the book- ing information published in Harris County’s daily JIMS 1058 reports into a search-friendly format. The intent is to aide non-profit organizations looking to do data research across time spans greater than a day.
- aws-cf-monitor: A wrapper around the AWS CloudFormation Node.js API that monitors the progress of the CloudFormation commands while providing smart logging. The intent is to remove a lot of boiler-plate code to poll the progress of a stack.
Education
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2010 2012
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2006 2010
Skills
Front-end
Experienced
JavaScript
TypeScript
HTML
CSS
Angular
11ty
Jasmine
Redwood
Next.js
11ty
Gatsby
Prisma
Back-end
Experienced
Java
Spring
Gradle
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
rspec
Rake
Python
Django
Node.js
DevOps
Experienced
AWS
Azure DevOps
Docker
Netlify
Vercel
Render
JAMStack
CI/CD
Jenkins
TravisCI
Project Management
Proficient
SCRUM
Lean Startup
Cynefin Framework