Summary
Colton Berry is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading engineering teams, currently based in Boulder, Colorado. He moves fluidly between hands-on product development and technical leadership, most recently serving as Director of Engineering at Saltbox and now engineering at Fern after multiple impactful roles at Palantir. Colton has deep practical experience across React, GraphQL, Postgres, ASP.NET/C#, and production system design, including implementing custom drag-and-drop libraries, polymorphic data patterns, and performant database migrations. He combines entrepreneurial instincts—demonstrated by work in cryptocurrency arbitrage and startup-stage product builds—with the discipline of enterprise delivery. Known for improving query performance and API architecture, he favors pragmatic, reusable solutions that scale. Colton’s background bridges boutique product engineering and mission-driven enterprise work, giving him a knack for turning ambiguous problems into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience