Brandon Cole
Engineering Manager at LiveKit
Marietta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Cole is an engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms and data products, currently managing engineering at LiveKit after leadership roles at dbt Labs and Datadog. He combines hands-on systems architecture with people management—taking products from 0-to-1 (dbt Labs Cost Management) and running billion-scale ingestion and query platforms at Datadog while scaling teams globally and preserving near-zero attrition. His technical breadth spans Rust, Go, Python, Kubernetes, Kafka, Snowflake and multi-cloud operations, and he has led M&A integrations and enterprise compliance work across AWS, GCP, Azure and Aliyun. Known for designing pragmatic hiring and OKR systems, he’s equally comfortable in deep technical RFCs and customer-facing beta programs, and has a history of founding and scaling early startups as well as driving platform strategy at Autodesk. An understated strength: he repeatedly translates executive vision into auditable, compliant architectures that power AI-ready data products.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Computer Science, N/A, Computer Science at University of CincinnatiBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Kennesaw State University
Github Skills (103)
programming-language10
data-interchange10
interpreter10
gcp10
protoc10
scheduling10
rest-api10
fluentd10
k8s10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
validation10
secrets10
helm10
vault10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
brandoncole/environment
Nov 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
brandoncole/kubernetes.github.io
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 month
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