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Hello, I'm Colin Dean. I'm a software engineer, engineering manager, community builder, and former journalist based in Pittsburgh. I embrace uncertainty and create certainty.

Major accomplishments

Conferences

• Executive Director, Heartifacts mental health and community building conference, 2020
• Sponsorship Director, Abstractions software conference, 2019
• Organizer, Heartifacts, 2018
• Organizer, Uptime DevOps conference, 2017
• Sponsorship & Scholarship Director, Abstractions, 2016
• Organizer, Steel City Ruby Conference, 2012-2014
• Organizer, devopsdays Pittsburgh, 2014-2015

Selected Speaking Experience

• Code Review is an Architectural Necessity. Codemash, January 2023.
• make python deps check test build: Towards Clone to Red-Green-Refactor in One Command. PyOhio, July 2022.
• A documentation workflow loved by both Data Scientists and Engineers. FOSDEM, February 2021.
• An Open-Source Documentation Workflow loved by both Data Scientists and Engineers. OpenLibreFree, November 2020.
• Building a content-focused, scientific document authoring workflow. Write the Docs, August 2020.
• Command-line Finances using the Plain Text Accounting Ecosystem. Codeland Conference, July 2020.
• Code Review is an Architectural Necessity. Code Daze Vol. 2, September 2018.
• Plain Text Accounting with the ledger Ecosystem. Ohio Linuxfest, September 2017.
• Code Review is an Architectural Necessity. GitHub Universe, September 2016.
• Code Review is an Architectural Necessity. SATURN, May 2016.

Published Works

• Executing a Documentation Workflow, Target Tech, 2022
• Requirements for creating a documentation workflow loved by both Data Scientists and Engineers, Target Tech, 2022
• Why I Stopped Bringing My Laptop to Meetings, Hacker Noon, 2017
• Code Review is an Architectural Necessity: Tips for code review and its limitations, IBM Bluemix, 2016
• Code Review is an Architectural Necessity: Quality attributes that code review ensures, IBM Bluemix, 2016
• Code Review is an Architectural Necessity: What is it and what problems does it solve?, IBM Bluemix, 2016
• Building 360° Information Applications, IBM 2014 (With Chen, Adams et al.)
• Data Governance Through Effective Discovery of Unacceptable Use, Information Optimized (Vivísimo), 2011
• It's All About the Metadata, Baby: Search Engine Optimization On The Intranet, Search Done Right (Vivísimo), 2009