About

colin@colinfay.me:~$ cat ~/about.md
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  COLIN FAY                                    class: R dev    │
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  R / {shiny}          █████████████████████████████░   lvl 99 │
│  Package dev          █████████████████████████████░   lvl 99 │
│  JS & webR            ████████████████████░░░░░░░░░░   lvl 74 │
│  Data engineering     ████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░   lvl 60 │
│  Docker & CI          ██████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░   lvl 68 │
│  Talks given          ████████████████████████░░░░░░   lvl 82 │
│  Kilometres per week  ██████████████████████████████   lvl 100│
│  Decibels tolerated   ███████████████████████████████████████████
├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  quest    » shipping {shiny} apps that survive production     │
│  loot     » a book, a bunch of packages, way too many talks   │
│  weakness » needs black metal and coffee to ship code         │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
colin <- list(
  day_job = "Lead Developer @ ThinkR",
  builds = c(
    "R packages",
    "{shiny} apps that go to prod",
    "books"
  ),
  ask_me_about = c(
    "R",
    "web apps",
    "software engineering",
    "open source"
  ),
  pronouns = "he/him",
  offline = c(
    "ultra running",
    "black metal",
    "plants (eating them)"
  ),
  status = "complaining about computers"
)

💻 What I’m doing right now 💻

Lead Developer at ThinkR

  • Software Engineering, focused on R, Web Technologies and Infrastructure (Docker, K8, …)
  • Data Science Engineering
  • Consulting
  • Training

🗃️ Previously, on colinfay 🗃️

Cofounder of the Breizh Data Club

The Breizh Data Club is a professionnal association that aims at gathering data lovers from Brittany and beyond.

Founder and editor in chief of Data Bzh

Data Bzh is a collaborative data-blogging platform that wants to democratize Brittany & data throught data analysis and visualisition.

In 2016, Data Bzh won the Trophée Open Data 2016 (More on that).

🧰 Weapons of choice 🧰

Programming languages

R  ·  JavaScript  ·  HTML  ·  CSS  ·  Bash

Plumbing

Docker  ·  Git

Data Science Engineering

  • Software Engineering (R & JavaScript)
  • Data Engineering
  • Data Infrastructure Engineering

🏆 Achievements unlocked 🏆

Official RStudio Certificate

RStudio Certified R Administrator

Full Service Certified Partners certification since 2019-01

  • RStudio Connect
  • RStudio Package Manager
  • RStudio Server

RStudio Certified R Instructor

  • RStudio Official Tidyverse Instructor since 2020-04

  • RStudio Official Shiny Instructor since 2020-04

Various Training I followed while on the Job

  • Docker & Kubernetes, with Objectif Libre

  • Advanced Git, with Human Coders

University

2014: Master 2 Information et Communication, Université de Rennes 2 parcours EPIC, mention Bien (15,5)

2012: Master Langues, Cultures Étrangères et Régionales, Université de Rennes 2 parcours Aire anglophone mention Bien (15,5)

📫 Say hi 📫

Always up for talking R, {shiny} in production, long stupid runs, or blast beats. Ping me on GitHub or Mastodon.

🤘 May your builds be green, your coffee black, and your riffs heavy. 🤘

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