Android engineer · Seattle

I’m Colin, an Android engineer and the maintainer of Coil.

I care about fast, focused products and open-source tools that make developers’ work better. Previously at Block and Instacart.

Work

Open source · Maintainer

A fast, lightweight image loading library for Android and Compose Multiplatform.

15 Jan 2025

Cash App Code Blog — Why EmptyCoroutineContext better expresses synchronous, undispatched coroutine execution.

04 Nov 2024

Coil 3.0 brings its fast, lightweight image loading pipeline to Android, iOS, JVM, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.

12 Jul 2023

Cash App Code Blog — The plan to bring Coil and its Compose APIs to Kotlin Multiplatform.

18 Aug 2021

Instacart — Introducing the first stable release of Coil and the ideas behind its image pipeline.

24 Mar 2021

Instacart — An early look at images, effects, and asynchronous loading in Jetpack Compose.

12 Aug 2019

Instacart — The origins and design goals of a fast, lightweight, Kotlin-first image loader.