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Colin King
Staff Software Engineer at Rippling
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Colin King is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer at Rippling in Brooklyn, New York, with a background in leading software engineering projects at companies like Segment and Airplane. He has also served as a Venture Partner at Contrary Capital and founded courses at the University of Maryland College Park.
Colin has a strong foundation in software engineering, with significant experience in leadership roles, project management, and a diverse skill set that includes Java, JavaScript, Python, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). His career highlights include roles at top tech companies like Google and Segment, as well as founding courses and contributing to venture capital initiatives.
Work Experience
Staff Software Engineer
2024 - Current
Rippling is the workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, finance, and more.
Raised $1,987,000,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group, Coatue, Greenoaks, Founders Fund and Bossa Invest.
Software Engineer
2021 - 2024
Joined as the first hire and helped grow the team to 22 people and $XM ARR. Acquired by Airtable in Jan 2024.
Airplane is a software development company that offers a software platform for engineers to build internal tools.
Raised $40,500,000.00 from Andrew Ofstad, Jaren Glover, Thrive Capital, Guillermo Rauch, Allison Pickens, Liu Jiang, Contrary, Comma Capital, Nat Friedman and Octave.
Senior Software Engineer
2019 - 2021
Software Engineer
2018 - 2019
Segment provides the customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Segment provides customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.
Raised $283,934,700.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.
Course Founder
2017 - 2018
I founded and instruct the for-credit class CMSC389L, "Practical Cloud Computing with AWS", at UMD in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. I designed the course curriculum, weekly codelabs, and final project. The syllabus is available here: http://ter.ps/pccS18
Venture Partner
2017 - 2018
Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build, from seed to scale.
Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build.
Software Engineering Intern
2017 - 2017
Nextdoor is a private social networking platform that connects neighbors for them to exchange helpful information, goods, and services.
Raised $723,800,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Benchmark, Anthony Noto, DAG Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Greylock, Allen & Company, Dave Goldberg, ARK Investment Management and Soroban Capital Partners LP.
Engineering Fellow
2017 - 2017
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Software Engineering Intern
2016 - 2016
Singlehandedly architected a scalable system to verifiably delete and recover indexed search data on Google Cloud. This feature is currently being rolled out as an alpha. Along the way, I authored a 10+ page design document that explained architectural decisions and built a system to verify deletion progress to satisfy Google Cloud SLA requirements. I also orchestrated data removal across multiple zones, replicas and database systems with different consistency guarantees. To expose this feature to customers, I extended the Python and Java App Engine APIs and development environments to support index deletion and recovery.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
System Application Developer Intern and Growth Hacker
2015 - 2015
Co-designed and developed the StrengthsFinder Analytics Platform from the ground up in .NET. This platform is now used by sales teams at Gallup worldwide. In my spare time, I assisted with the design of a machine learning lead scoring algorithm and personally designed and implemented a custom search engine used across Gallup’s sites.
Co-founder and Project Manager
2015 - 2015
Enabled non-profits, not-for-profits and volunteer organizations to achieve their missions by developing technological solutions to their real world problems. Educated student teams on the necessary technologies and managed them as they developed products to be deployed to clients. Facilitated communications between student hackers and representatives. Current clients include the Peace Corps, Solidarity Center (Bangladesh) and LocaLove Philippines.