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Colin Dean is a software engineer, community builder, and non-profit leader from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
I am a software engineer, community builder, and non-profit leader from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
Colin Dean is a software engineer, community builder, and non-profit leader. He's built software for IBM Watson, Target, Vivísimo, and Arcadia.io, plus some open source software, notably Homebrew, used by most Mac-using developers. He's served on boards of five nonprofits, founding two, and advising other nonprofits on leadership and technical topics. He spends most of his time organizing events and special projects for Code & Supply, Pittsburgh's largest community of software professionals. He loves cuddling with his dogs, cat, and partner.
I am a software engineer, community builder, and non-profit leader. I've built software for IBM Watson, Target, Vivísimo, and Arcadia.io, plus some open source software, notably Homebrew, used by most Mac-using developers. I've served on boards of five nonprofits, founding two, and advised other nonprofits on leadership and technical topics. I spend most of my time organizing events and special projects for Code & Supply, Pittsburgh's largest community of software professionals. I love cuddling with my dogs, cat, and partner.
Colin Dean is a software engineer, community builder, and non-profit leader. He's built software for IBM Watson, Target, Vivísimo, and Arcadia.io, plus some open source software used by many developers.
Colin has spoken at SATURN, GitHub Universe, FOSDEM, Codemash, Write the Docs, PyOhio, Ohio Linuxfest, Pittsburgh TechFest, Open Source North, and other conferences. He's organized tech conferences in Pittsburgh, such as Abstractions, Heartifacts, devopsdays, and Steel City Ruby.
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He is currently a Lead AI Engineer at Target, focusing on developer experience, DevOps, build engineering, code quality, standards, and observability, and advises its OSPO. He is also the Managing Director of Code & Supply Co., Pittsburgh's largest community of software professionals, running its events and special projects.
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He's served on boards of five nonprofits, including two organizations he founded: Meta Mesh Wireless Communities/Community Internet Solutions, a non-profit WiFi ISP in Pittsburgh (2012–2024), and Code & Supply Scholarship Fund, which awards conference travel grants (2016–). He served two terms (2023–2025) on the Project Leadership Committee of the Homebrew project, the missing package manager for macOS and Linux. He advises other nonprofits on leadership and technical topics.
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