About

Colin Lebens is a Senior Software Engineer at Jama Software, where he is focused on maximizing innovation success. With over 11 years of relevant experience, he has a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a J.D. in Intellectual Property Law. Colin has a past career as a patent attorney and is currently pursuing an MBA to strengthen his business expertise. Colin has worked extensively in C# .NET and web frontend technologies, including VueJS, Angular, React, and TypeScript. He utilizes a combination of technical expertise, thoughtful and rigorous dialogue, and a passion for learning to identify holistic solutions to technical problems. In his current role at Jama Software, Colin is responsible for creating Living Requirements™ that form the digital thread through siloed development, test and risk activities to provide end-to-end compliance, risk mitigation, and process improvement. His rapidly growing customer base of more than 12.5 million users across 30 countries spans the automotive, medical device, life sciences, semiconductor, aerospace & defense, industrial manufacturing, financial services, and insurance industries. Prior to his current role, Colin worked as a Software Engineer at AltSource, Inc. where he led an international team of engineers on a project for a well drilling contractor’s estimation and intake app. He also modernized the technology stack for a wine distribution company app by integrating Vue.js, TypeScript, Swagger/NSwag, and Web API into a legacy ASP.NET Web Forms application, which led to an increase in developer productivity. Additionally, Colin architected a suite of Shopify- and Stripe-integrated apps for an e-commerce client by developing a .NET Core backend with a React-based Shopify Admin plugin and React-based extensions to a Shopify storefront. Colin also worked as a Full Stack Software Engineer at AlphaPrep.net, where he developed a multi-application standardized test training LMS for a provider producing courses with video lectures and generated practice tests using algorithmically-tuned difficulty levels. He integrated Object Oriented principles (i.e. SOLID, particularly including SimpleInjector-based Dependency Injection in a .NET MVC backend application) to improve understandability and testability of the codebase. Colin's education history includes a Master of Business Administration - MBA (expected) from Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, a Full-Stack Javascript certification from Portland Code School, and a CORe Credential of Readiness from Harvard Business School Online.