Carter Cole
Senior Software Developer at ENGIE North America Inc.
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCarter Cole is a senior software developer with 14 years of professional experience and nearly two decades of self-taught engineering practice, specializing in performant full-stack systems built with GraphQL, React/Relay, and PostgreSQL at scale. He has led migrations from legacy stacks to modern GraphQL + React architectures in high-stakes environments like DNA forensics, optimizing complex permission models and heavy genomic datasets for speed and reliability. Carter has deep backend expertise—designing workflow engines, realtime systems, and custom WebSocket and AMQP-based pipelines—and has repeatedly used typed languages and tooling to reduce regressions and improve developer velocity. He pairs pragmatic product-focused engineering with hands-on performance tuning, from query optimization to Rust-powered AWS Lambdas, and has a track record of shipping integrations that drive measurable business impact. Based in Houston, he combines startup leadership experience (VP of Engineering) with staff-level contributions at scale, and a practical knack for building lightweight, cost-effective distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
CE/CS PhysicsEngineeringPrograming, CE/CS PhysicsEngineeringPrograming at Texas A&M University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (102)
relay-modern10
relay10
youtube10
xml2js10
cli10
react-applications10
text-summarization10
youtube-dl10
ffmpeg10
server-side-rendering10
javascript9
data-driven9
spanish9
identity9
converter9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
neopunisher/Open-Text-Summarizer
Apr 2012 - Jun 2013
Automatic text summarization
Contributions:4 commits in 1 year 2 months
nlppythonatsnormalizationtext-summarization
TheArchiver/webvm
May 2023 - May 2023
Virtual Machine for the Web
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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