Vincent Colavin

Senior Engineer with Leadership Experience

San Diego, California, United States

About

Hi! I'm a senior engineer, and occasional manager and tech lead, with over a decade of experience.

Experience

  • Hint Health (Full-time · 3 yrs 2 mos)
    • Senior Software Engineer
      Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

      At Hint I serve as the subject matter expert for payments, ensuring stability and scalability of mission-critical systems while continuing to ship new features. Our core tools are Ruby on Rails and Elm.

    • Tech Lead Manager
      May 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

      • As leader of the payments team, I owned projects from roadmap negotiation to design and deployment. Aligned engineering efforts with business priorities. • Managed projects and resources, maintaining a high standard of accountability to multi-functional stakeholders • Kept the team’s morale and retention high amidst a challenging period within the company via servant leadership, mentorship, performance management, and career development.

  • Senior Software Engineer (full stack) at Humu
    Mar 2022 - Jan 2023 · 11 mos

    • Proposed and managed project to deploy a component library which significantly improved development time for all front-end work • Developed and implemented new documentation processes for maintenance tasks, ultimately building a knowledge base to solve client issues • Championed software accessibility and served as an expert resource for teammates, including by holding regular office hours • Mentored junior developers, enabling them to rapidly ramp up and be successful

  • Software Engineer (Front-end) at Invitae
    May 2021 - Feb 2022 · 10 mos

    • Led development and delivery of a critical single-page application, orchestrating deployment across microservices and FaaS architecture • Mentored junior developers, accelerating their growth and boosting team productivity and confidence

  • Software Development Engineer II (Front-end) at Esri
    May 2019 - Nov 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

    • Acted as subject matter expert for React, Redux, and TypeScript; drove team-wide growth by mentoring and leading knowledge-sharing to raise the collective technical bar • Owned rewrites of critical workflows in mission-critical tools, prioritizing accessibility, stability, and maintainability

  • Front-end developer at Periscopic
    Dec 2017 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

    At Periscopic, I built data visualizations while also building the apps, APIs, and infrastructure that supported them. In this role deepened my specialization in the front-end. I developed mastery of a modern suite of tools and techniques for front-end web development: functional programming, React, TypeScript, ES6, Webpack, and many others. Here are the two projects I've spent the lion's share of my time on: - Lumina Predictive Tool: http://strongernation.luminafoundation.org/report/2019/#predictive - Pacific Salmon Foundation Salmon Explorer: http://salmonexplorer.ca/