# Colin Kincaid

> Software Engineer @ Pavilion

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/colinkincaid

Pursuing equity by means of and within tech.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Pavilion
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Tech owner of the supply-side product, including on-platform supplier experience, revenue data management, and internal tooling for account executives and customer success managers

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
ChromeOS System UI Surfaces team
-Developed productivity features to make Chromebook user experiences seamless and delightful
-Updated and maintained Google's SWE interview questions with the goals of improving equity and gathering higher-quality signal in the hiring process
-Taught Computer Programming I as the Googler in Residence at Tennessee State University

### Visiting Faculty @ Tennessee State University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Nashville, Tennessee, United States
-Planned curriculum for and taught two sections of Computer Programming I
-Coordinated the course across all sections (~100 students total)
-Hired and managed the course's teaching assistants
-Co-organized a joint hackathon with Fisk University

### Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
-Worked primarily on memory, networking, and storage for the VMkernel Resource Management team, with additional forays into CPU scheduling, NUMA placement, and other decisions related to multiplexing hardware resources across virtual machines
-Latinos@VMware University Outreach Ambassador

### Lecturer @ Stanford CS Bridge
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia
-Gave a daily lecture to Colombian high schoolers in an intensive computer science program
-Taught in Spanish and translated existing course materials into Spanish

### Section Leading Coordinator @ Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Stanford, California, United States
-Recruited and hired section leaders for introductory computer science courses
-Trained new section leaders in effective and inclusive teaching practices
-Managed a million-dollar annual budget for wages and community events

### Lecturer @ Stanford University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Stanford, California, United States
-Lectured four times per week for CS106A, Stanford’s introductory CS class of 250 students
-Taught topics including variables, control flow, methods, classes, I/O, and data structures
-Designed new programming assignments addressing issues such as unconscious gender bias

### Course Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Stanford, California, United States
-Held weekly office hours, wrote exam questions, and graded coursework for CS144: Introduction to Computer Networking and CS107: Computer Organization and Systems.
-Curated a syllabus for and taught CS 107A: Problem-solving Lab for CS107, a supplementary discussion section intended for students from backgrounds historically excluded from computer science

### Section Leader @ Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Stanford, California, United States
-Taught lessons in weekly discussion sections for introductory computer science courses
-Tested assignments and exams for lecturers and graded student submissions
-Held weekly office hours and interactive feedback sessions with students

### Resident Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Stanford, California, United States
-Mentored and counseled 78 first-year Stanford students
-Advised dorm government on how to plan programming and hold efficient meetings
-Facilitated workshops on how to engage in respectful, challenging dialogue

### Tutor @ Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Stanford, California, United States
-Tutored students in Stanford's undergraduate-level math and computer science courses
-Taught linear algebra and calculus review sessions at students' request

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile team
-Implemented a new user experience on the Facebook iOS and Android mobile apps
-Communicated cross-functionally to plan the project’s design at the UX, UI, and API layers

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, California, United States
Search team
-Developed a new semantic parsing algorithm for search queries
-Improved performance of an existing NLP engine

### Software Engineer Intern @ Freie Universität Berlin
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Berlin, Germany
-Designed and implemented a goal recognition algorithm for soccer-playing humanoid robots
-Implemented a histogram matching algorithm for automatic camera color calibration


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/colin-kincaid

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Last updated: 2026-03-23