Colin Viebrock

Over 25 years experience imagining, defining, and building internet applications. A demonstrated track-record of successfully managing small to large projects, with small and large teams, for small to large companies.

• Product Manager

  Upfeat Media

  2021—2023

  Worked with internal stakeholders and third-party providers to develop long-term plans for improving internal processes (financial, performance reporting, APIs). Led local and remote developers/designers to execute on those product plans. Managed the launch (and wind-down) of new cash-back and coupon products, launched new white-label clients, and codified internal processes to support for future growth.

• Technical Product Owner / Development Manager

  Priceline Partner Network

  2018—2020

  Managed a team of 8 local developers, collaborating with teams in New York, Connecticut, and Mumbai to scope, design and build backend technology supporting a network of several hundred online-travel affiliates. Contributed to quarterly goal-setting and dependency management planning as part of a “triad” model (i.e. PM/TPO/TPM).

• Product Lead

  Tipping Canoe (now Pepper.com)

  2014—2017

  Worked with stakeholders in UK, Berlin and Brazil as the head developer and technical lead on several projects including the “green fielding" of wareable.com (from zero to 9 million page views per month) and on-going development for other high-traffic sites including hotukdeals.com.

• Manager, Content Development

  Tucows Inc.

  2004—2006

  Managed an international team of 10+ staff through various projects involving one of the most popular and well-known sites on the internet. Was responsible for complete website overhaul and redesign, including public UX/UI and back-end wide-area content mirroring technologies.

• Co-Founder & Lead Developer / Manager, Programming

  EasyDNS Technologies Inc.

  1998—2004

  Developed the core code of easyDNS.com's domain name registration and management systems, researched new technologies to enhance the product, and designed interfaces to other proprietary systems. Grew company from start-up to 10 employees and $2MM in annual revenue.

• Creative Director & Lead Developer

  Private World Communications

  1997—2000

  Agency design, development, project and client management for various clients including Blackberry, World Wildlife Fund, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Triax Capital Management, etc..

• Designer, Developer and Consultant

  Freelance

  1996—present

Expert knowledge of front- and back-end web stacks, with specialization in the LAMP and LEMP ecosystems — Linux, Apache/nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP.

Extensive knowledge of HTML (including cross-browser, mobile browser compatibilities, and responsive design), CSS (including frameworks and preprocessors), PHP (Laravel, Symfony, Wordpress), and SQL (MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite). High level of experience with Javascript (NodeJS, vanilla JS, React, VueJS).

Very familiar with various package eco-systems and standard, widely-used modules (e.g. NPM, Composer, etc.). Various degrees of experience with related technologies (e.g. Redis, Memcache, Elasticsearch, queuing services, messaging and notification services, etc.), build systems, and SCM/CI/CD platforms (e.g. git, Gitlab/Github).

Advanced knowledge of Linux shell scripting and server management (e.g. nginx, Apache, Postfix, etc.), and various internet protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, etc.). Functional knowledge of other programming languages (golang, python, perl, etc.).

Comfortable working in MacOS (preferred), Linux and Windows environments. Daily user of several project and task management systems (Jira, Trello, Pivotal, Confluence, ClickUp etc.), and third-party application analytics tools (Google Analytics, New Relic, Bugsnag, PagerDuty, etc.). Proficient in Adobe CS, Sketch, Figma, MS Office, G-Suite.

Experienced in the SDLC and project methodologies (waterfall, agile, etc.) and agile practices (sprint planning, scrum/stand-up, backlog refinement, retrospective, etc.).

Ongoing involvement in the development of several Open Source projects, including several very popular Laravel libraries.

• University of Toronto

  Bachelor of Arts, Honours

• University of British Columbia

  Diploma, Two-month French language immersion course

• Alliance Française

  Diplôme de niveau élémentaire, French language course

• George Brown College

  Building Renovation Technology, Academic Achievement Award

Available upon request.

Personal site: viebrock.ca

Further information: LinkedIn Profile

Open Source software: GitHub