Colin King

Staff Software Engineer

2024 - Current

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.

Senior Software Engineer

2019 - 2021

Software Engineer

2018 - 2019

Segment provides the customer data infrastructure that helps businesses put their customers first.

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.

Software Engineering Intern

2017 - 2017

Engineering Fellow

2017 - 2017

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.

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.