Collin Kokotas

I'm a staff engineer with 11+ years building web applications end-to-end — increasingly at principal scope: taking flagship platforms from a rough proof-of-concept to the top of a company's revenue, then architecting them into systems whole teams build on and setting the technical direction behind them. Over the past year and a half, that work has centered on shipping AI products into production. I lean hard on coding agents as productivity tools, but I treat them as exactly that: amplifiers, never a substitute for deep domain knowledge or the judgment that only comes from practical experience. I also believe great products are never built by programmers alone — the people in QA, project management, and customer relations are the unsung heroes behind every launch I'm proud of. And I think the discipline itself belongs to everyone: at its core, programming is just problem decomposition and logical reasoning — a skill worth teaching early, especially to kids, and one that pays off in every corner of work.

I'm at my best owning ambiguous, high-impact problems from zero to production — deep in TypeScript, Next.js, Rust, and agentic AI — and lifting teams through documentation, technical leadership, and mentorship. See the full resume.