Colin Dean
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarColin Dean is a Lead AI Software Engineer in Pittsburgh with 16 years of experience building data pipelines, ML infrastructure, and developer experience at scale for Fortune 50 retail (notably driving Target features that produced $90M+ in attributable revenue). He blends hands-on engineering—Spark, Scala, Python, Hadoop, Kubernetes—with developer tooling and documentation, and contributes to Target-owned open source projects like data-validator and make-python-devex. A seasoned community builder and event organizer, Colin has founded and grown Code & Supply into a major local tech hub and regularly organizes conferences and meetups. His open-source footprint includes meaningful contributions to widely used projects such as Homebrew and RustSec, where he added JSON outputs and improved packaging workflows. Known for pragmatic engineering, DEI advocacy, and a preference for “local remote” roles, he pairs technical depth with a long-standing commitment to mentoring and community service.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (45)
dependency-management10
json10
git10
content-management-system10
package-management10
python10
command-line-interface10
data-serialization10
serialization10
ruby10
homebrew10
manage10
content-management10
command-line10
html10
Programming languages (46)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-bundle
Dec 2015 - Jul 2022
💀 Homebrew/bundle (merged into Homebrew/brew)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 158 commits, 71 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the functionality and features of the `homebrew-bundle` project. Their work focused on adding and enhancing the `brew bundle dump` and `brew bundle list` commands, which involved modifying the codebase to include options for describing dependencies and listing different dependency types. They also added tests to ensure the correct functionality of these new features. This included changes to the core logic and DSL for handling dependencies.
homebrew
jedi4ever/devopsdays-webby
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Website code for the devopsdays website
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:68 commits, 59 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the website code for the devopsdays website, specifically focusing on the Pittsburgh 2015 event. Their work included adding and updating content related to the event, such as sponsorship information, registration links, code of conduct, travel details, and speaker information. They also made changes to the site's layout and corrected information, demonstrating a hands-on role in managing the website's content and presentation.
devopsdays
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