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<h1 title="You're making it angry!">CAD.CX</h1>
<h2>The Center for the Internet Presence of Colin Dean</h2>
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<h1>About</h1>
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<p class="blurb">
<img src="images/2015/devopsdays_hatscarf.jpg" width="100" alt="Colin Dean, wearing a top hat"/>
Colin Dean is a
software engineer,
community builder,
non-profit leader,
<a href="https://github.com/colindean/talks">public speaker</a>
and former journalist
based in Pittsburgh.
He <a href="https://github.com/colindean/talks/blob/master/recordings.md">speaks at tech conferences</a>
on behalf of himself, his employers, and his affiliated organizations.
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<p class="blurb">
By day, he engineers software as a part of the
<a href="https://www.target.com">Target Corporation</a> Data Science group.
He focuses on accelerating data scientists by building tools, automating processes,
and encouraging reliable engineering practices to increase confidence and trust in
the division's scientific approach to improving the efficiency of a major national
retail chain.
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<p class="blurb">
He is also the managing director of <a href="https://codeandsupply.co">Code & Supply</a>,
a small business that has built a community comprised of thousands of software professionals
primarily in the Greater Pittsburgh metro area and the larger Rust Belt region, but with national
and even worldwide membership courtesy of its conferences <a href="https://abstractions.io">Abstractions</a>,
<a href="https://heartifacts.codeandsupply.co">Heartifacts</a>, and <a href="https://uptime.events">Uptime</a>.
He administers Code & Supply's <a href="https://codeandsupply.co/workspace">co-working office space and community center</a>
in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh and runs meetings and user groups there and online.
He is also the originator and repeat author of the
<a href="https://codeandsupply.co/survey">Code & Supply Compensation Survey & Report</a>,
a multi-year effort to study software professionals' compensation, work life, and job satisfaction.
He also administers the <a href="https://codeandsupply.fund">Code & Supply Scholarship Fund</a>,
a non-profit organization that is a sibling to C&S that focuses on providing travel grants.
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<p class="blurb">
He was the founding president of the board of directors of
<a href="https://www.metamesh.org">Meta Mesh Wireless Communities</a>,
a Pittsburgh-based non-profit bridging the digital divide by deploying Internet access in low-income areas
throughout western Pennsylvania.
It was renamed <a href="https://bringtheweb.org">Community Internet Solutions</a> in 2022.
He continues to serve MMWC in various capacities.
He previously was the Chief Information Officer of Meta Mesh LLC, the for-profit predecessor of MMWC.
</p>
<p class="blurb">
Previously, he was a Director of Software Engineering for Arcadia.io, where he hired his own team
and built a prototype data extract agent system to compete with a $10B company's deeply entrenched offering.
</p>
<p class="blurb">
Before that, he was a software engineer within IBM Watson, specifically Watson Connectivity,
where he was the architect and lead engineer on Watson Data Crawler and Watson Discovery News,
and tech lead of the Watson Explorer Engine development team and its outcroppings.
He previously delivered professional services and consultation on Watson Explorer,
formerly known as InfoSphere Data Explorer, and Vivísimo Velocity.
</p>
<p class="blurb">
He contributes to a wide variety of open-source projects, including <a href="https://brew.sh">Homebrew</a>,
serving on the Homebrew Project Leadership Committee, its board of directors in NPO terms, since February 2023.
He was a founding member of <a href="http://www.steelcityruby.org">Steel City Ruby Conference</a> and
led <a href="http://www.devopsdays.org/">devopsdays Pittsburgh</a> in 2015.
</p>
<p class="blurb">
Aside from event production, non-profit leadership, video gaming, and software,
his interests include
linguistics and languages
(
Latin 1998–2007,
Esperanto 2002–,
Dutch 2023–,
with some bits of
Spanish,
French,
and
Portuguese
),
classical liberalism and voluntaryist libertarian political philosophy,
photography,
personal finance,
digital currency such as Bitcoin,
and
<a href="http://www.glademill.com">dogs</a>.
</p>
<p class="blurb">
Colin serves as the elected Judge of Election for his voting district
in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania since 2018,
winning election for the position in 2017 and 2021.
He encourages everyone to
<a href="https://www.vote.pa.gov/Resources/Pages/Be-a-Poll-Worker.aspx">become a pollworker</a>
in order to learn how American elections <em>actually</em> work.
</p>
<p class="blurb">
Previously, he wrote unbiased computer and consumer electronics
hardware and software reviews for
<a href="http://www.thinkcomputers.org">ThinkComputers</a> and organized
computer and console video gaming events as president of
<a href="http://www.pittco.org">Pittsburgh LAN Coalition</a>, a.k.a Pittco.
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Want to recruit Colin for your next project?
<a href="recruitme.html">Look here.</a>
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