Caleb Cowen
Senior Software Engineer at Checkr, Inc.
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb Cowen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Frisco, Texas, with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable web services and customer-facing applications. He has driven high-impact work at Checkr—maintaining services that handle ~2000 requests/min, leading time-sensitive efforts that unlocked $2M in revenue, and cutting an expensive process by 56% through cross-team research and implementation. Comfortable across stacks (Ruby on Rails, Java/Spring, React, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure), he combines backend performance tuning with pragmatic front-end work and cloud-native deployments. Caleb mentors junior engineers and routinely removes blockers, contributing both technical depth and team velocity. Early roles in manufacturing and temp work inform his focus on reliable operations and iterative problem solving. He’s pragmatic, outcome-driven, and skilled at translating ambiguous business needs into robust, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of completion Computer Software Engineering, Certificate of completion Computer Software Engineering at Turing School of Software & DesignGeneral Studies, General Studies at Murray State College
English
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BeardandBow/AConnectedChicago
Feb 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:99 PRs, 287 pushes, 102 branches in 2 years 10 months
livecodelife/linespec
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 122 pushes in 4 months
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