Colin Wetherbee

Toptal connects the top 3% of freelance developers all over the world.

Designed and built a service to manage sharded databases and migrate data among them safely and efficiently. Led a software development team focused on big data reporting and internal customer dashboards. Architected and hired a team to help build a generic, intelligent ("do what I mean"​) data access layer to be used internally across the company's entire software stack. Java, Hibernate, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra

Engineering lead and architect for LiveOps's Real-Time Monitoring product, which provided deep, live insight into our contact center platform for our customers. Also led development for and maintained internal and external security and sign-on applications. Java, Perl, C, MySQL, Linux

NYSE equity trading under the provisions of the Series 7 Registered Representative license. Created a suite of web-based equity analysis software using Perl and PostgreSQL to supplement manual day-trading.

Designed and developed a CAD tool for laying out residential and commercial radiant heating infrastructure. C#, .NET

Hosting for web, FTP, and email. Sold company in 2006. Perl, PostgreSQL, Linux

Developed embedded systems software to analyze and present instrumentation data generated by 1xEV-DO mobile devices. Perl, C, VxWorks, Linux

Developer on the Real-Time Composer project, a Windows GUI application that allowed non-programmers to program and debug Texas Instruments DSPs by visually connecting blocks of code. C++, MFC

Nanoscale engineering; robotics; medical robotics; applied physics