Colin Hamilton Email & Phone Number

New York, Us

Tech lead for the Frontend Infrastructure team, which I started with my manager to focus on maximizing developer productivity on the frontend. Led projects to organize the frontend code into a more cohesive architecture; to improve the testing environment to make it easier and faster to write and run tests; and to introduce GraphQL to build a new API that is easier for developers to explore and make sense of. Wrote a general-purpose GraphQL engine for backend developers to use to build a GraphQL schema in JavaWorked closely with the other engineering teams to provide help and recommendations for their projects, including reviewing code and planning documents, offering feedback on how to keep systems maintainable. Also sought feedback from these teams to understand their challenges, to help my team prioritize its work. Advocated for prioritization of tech debt and cleanup across the engineering organization. Wrote documentation, gave tech talks, and led a reading group to try and improve the team's engineering skills. Conducted several interviews a month for both frontend and backend candidates.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Maintained and improved an application to identify and send alerts about potentially duplicate data in a customer system. Wrote and maintained data integrations from customer data sources, and handled installation and upgrades of software.Developed ​record views​, a new concept allowing the display of data provenance to be customized by users. Wrote and maintained both frontend and backend code for the display of documents in Palantir’s Gotham platform.Won the 2018 Palantir Summer Hack Week by redesigning an old, popular app to use modern, supported technologies.Conducted phone and in-person technical interviews with dozens of candidates.

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

Led weekly labs, reviewing concepts with groups of 20-25 students, answering questions, and helping them accomplish that week's lab assignment. Held office hours, helping students with projects and programming concepts. Graded assignments and projects, providing feedback on students' code organization and clarity. Provided ideas for projects, and gave input to professors on the direction of the course.

Natick, Ma, Us

Developed a prototype for a graphical robot programming application aimed at middle school and high school students.

Chatham, Massachusetts, Us

Worked with members, providing services such as carrying bags, cleaning clubs, and restocking the driving range. Managed golf operations, keeping an organized queue and keeping track of rounds played. Managed the bag room, organizing the space to efficiently store and retrieve golf bags for members with storage. Helped to organize and run tournaments.Later worked in the golf shop, managing golf merchandise for sale to members and guests. Generated statistics on course play over the course of four years, and the profitability of the annual "hit-the-green" competition.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics And Computer Science

High School