Collin Street is a full-stack software engineer and "Builder" at Twilio with seven years of experience based in San Francisco. He focuses on API development, web scraping, data modeling, and infrastructure, and is a notable back-end contributor to the open-source Disease-sh COVID-19 API — adding scrapers for Mexico and Canada, new therapeutics endpoints, and Redis caching to reduce latency. Collin automates messy, manual workflows using OCR, geocoding, and AWS, and has engineered personal projects to handle high-throughput backends. He pairs hands-on production work with mentorship and teaching experience, helping other engineers level up through instruction and open-source collaboration.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
CUNY-IBM Watson Case Competition, CUNY-IBM Watson Case Competition at Baruch College
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Justice Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Justice Studies at John Jay College (CUNY)
API for Current cases and more stuff about COVID-19 and Influenza
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 77 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Collin primarily contributed to the back-end of the API project. Their work included creating and modifying scrapers to collect data from various government sources related to COVID-19 and influenza, specifically focusing on Mexico and Canada. They refactored existing code to utilize different data sources, and updated test cases to align with changes in the data structure. The user also integrated new endpoints for therapeutics data, demonstrating proficiency in data acquisition and API development within the project's scope.
API for Current cases and more stuff about COVID-19 and Influenza
Contributions:23 pushes, 23 branches in 1 month
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