Colin Armstrong San Francisco Bay Area, California me@colinarms.com Blog / GitHub / LinkedIn / Twitter

Hi! I am currently a Senior Software Engineer at Google in Mountain View, since September 2017. I manage the Real-time Communications Abuse team within Counter-Abuse Technology. I'm also a part of the Privacy Working Group, advising teams on privacy best practices and approving launches.

My interests include algorithms, distributed systems, security & privacy, startups, and coffee. ☕️

• 2x Internship at Google, Google Search, California Jan - Apr 2016 and Sep - Dec 2016
• Part-time SWE at Coinbase, Payments, Remote Sep - Dec 2015
• Internship at Coinbase, Payments, California May - Aug 2015
• Internship at Blackberry, Device Infra, Waterloo Sep - Dec 2014
• BASc. Honours Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada Sep 2012 - Jun 2017

Startups & projects

• Papyrus - better blogging & newsletters Current
• BoltScale - better uptime monitoring & status pages Apr - Sep 2020, acquired
• BoltFare - AI powered flight-deal-finding Facebook chatbot Oct 2016 - Aug 2017, acquired
  • Over $1m in flight deals found from 10k+ users
• YepLive - mobile livestreaming app Mar 2015 - Jun 2015, acquisition offer
  • Thousands of users across iOS, Android and web

Press

• Side projects & startups
  • TechCrunch - Yeplive brings landscape video and web comments to the live streaming fight
  • WhatsYourTech - Canadian app Yeplive aims to take chunk of livestreaming pie
  • TheNextWeb - BoltFare's chatbot finds you super-cheap fares in minutes
  • TechVibes - BoltFare is a chatbot-based travel agent that finds you the best flight deals
• Google (notable press covering projects that me or my team was directly involved in)
  • Safer conversations in Messages with Verified SMS and Spam Protection
  • Safety first: Announcing 11 new G Suite security features
• Personal
  • Chinese trip plants "Seeds for the Future" in Aurora app developer
  • Huawei program sends 20 engineering students to China

Awards

• 'Top Cryptocurrency Hack' at HackMIT in 2016, ultimately leading to an internship at Coinbase
• Highest performance evaluation - Outstanding - at 5 internships during my undergrad (listed above)