About

Collin Williams is a highly experienced Software Engineer with 9.03 years of relevant experience in building data pipelines and infrastructure. He is skilled in a wide range of platforms and languages, including Apache Flink, Spark, Hive, Hadoop, Kafka, Scala, Java, Haskell, Dart, Flutter, and AWS Lambda, AWS EKS, AWS with Pulumi and Terraform. Collin has a strong UNIX background, which he leverages in the development process. Currently, Collin is serving as a Senior Platform Engineer at make corporation, where he is responsible for building data pipelines and infrastructure using Java/Lambda/Terraform. He has also written a small library to simplify deployment and creation of Lambdas and has delivered two applications to production in six months while being a major contributor in small teams. Prior to his current role, Collin worked as a Streaming Platform Engineer at Artech, where he provided a streaming platform within Apple based on Apache Flink and a Java-based SDK. Infrastructure was provided by Pulumi. He also worked as an SDE II at Nortal US, where he was involved in on-site consulting at Expedia, working on Java and Javascript projects, including social sign-on using oAuth, client-side phone number validation using libphonenumber-js, and cross-domain related tracking with client-side Javascript, Kafka, etc. Collin holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics with a minor in Physics from the University of Washington. He is proficient in various tech stacks, including AWS, Java, Spark, Terraform, SQL, Kafka, infra, MapReduce, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Scala, HDFS, Apache Hive, Docker, Elastic Search, Jenkins, Javascript, Search, ETL, Puppet, Apache Airflow, Data Warehouse, Big Data, test, MySQL, and Microservices. Collin is a passionate software engineer who enjoys bringing up applications and API services backed by the latest technologies. He is highly motivated and always strives to improve his skills and knowledge to keep up with the rapidly changing tech landscape.