Built In Colorado

Colorado’s blend of scenic mountain lifestyle and bustling business activity is drawing top-tier technical talent away from traditional coastal hubs, and it now hosts a thriving community of startups and established enterprises hungry for skilled AI engineers. These organizations rely on experts in machine learning, data science and software engineering to tackle diverse challenges.

Simple and scalable. That’s how the engineering team at Playground, a childcare operations software company, approaches product builds. Ricardo Rivero, staff software engineer, explained that the product team focuses on shipping simple changes that can be scaled down the road rather than over-optimizing before they need to. “In practice that means designing for today, the three-month and 12-month solution concurrently,” Rivero said.

Career growth is desired by most professionals, but finding a manager that is a talent accelerator can be challenging — unless you work at Wipfli or EchoStar, that is. That’s because these two employers make advancement feel attainable through clear career pathways, frequent performance conversations and funded training programs. Just ask Aditi Patil, manager of talent and organization development at advisory firm Wipfli.

A WorldView 3D Rapid image of the Hoover Dam. | Photo: Vantor REVIEWED BY Rose Velazquez Vantor, a spatial intelligence company headquartered in Westminster, announced the launch of its new solution, WorldView 3D. This satellite-based product is designed to provide warfighters, intelligence analysts and cartographers with an accurate and up-to-date ground-level model of the physical world.

What It's Like to Build an AI-Native Career at Huntress At Huntress, Enablement Lead Maisaa Saadeh draws a line between AI that makes you a little faster at what you already do and AI that takes an entire task off your plate. The first is table stakes. The second is the bar she holds her team to, because it frees people for the work that actually needs human judgment. What Does Huntress Do?

For Carling Spelhaug, director of corporate communications at AMP, it’s easy to feel connected to her work when she sees the impact that the company makes. Spelhaug points to AMP’s mission of improving the recycling industry as a core factor in employee engagement and company culture. “Employee engagement at AMP has remained consistently strong and above industry norms, reflecting a workforce that believes in the mission and values the culture,” Spelhaug said.

REVIEWED BY Justine Sullivan Summary: Caterpillar is modernizing its dealer ecosystem by using Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Cat Converge Suite to create a more connected, scalable ERP foundation across its global dealer network. The work combines global platform deployment, dealer-facing business transformation and career growth for ERP professionals who want to expand from traditional system...

REVIEWED BY Justine Sullivan Summary: Northslope offers engineers rapid career growth through direct client exposure, leadership opportunities, frequent feedback and flexible career pathing instead of fixed promotion timelines. Patrycja Zajac says the company’s culture of continuous feedback, lateral learning and real ownership helped her move from a traditional bank engineering role to leading an 11-person...

REVIEWED BY Ellen Glover Summary: An overview of major Denver employers that regularly hire part-time workers across aviation, healthcare, education, retail, logistics and hospitality. These companies offer flexible, hourly schedules shaped by the city’s all-hours economy. more An overview of major Denver employers that regularly hire part-time workers across aviation, healthcare, education, retail, logistics and hospitality.

Cloud platform DigitalOcean announced its first quarter financial results for the 2026 fiscal year. The company recorded $258 million in revenue, marking a year-over-year increase of 22 percent. This follows the launch of its AI-Native Cloud, which is designed for inference and agentic workloads. “The inference and agentic era needs its own cloud. DigitalOcean built it, and our record Q1 results demonstrate the strength of our platform,” Paddy Srinivasan, DigitalOcean’s CEO, said in a statement.