Chris Cole
Director Of Engineering - Hospital Performance Index & Health Trend Guidelines at Milliman
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Cole is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader with 13+ years building scalable, product-focused systems and teams, currently directing Milliman’s Hospital Performance Index and Health Trend Guidelines. He combines hands-on technical delivery—from N-tier architectures to REST service redesigns—with product strategy, working closely with actuaries and sales to bring complex healthcare products to market. A proven open web advocate, he helped found and steer the OpenSocial Foundation, open-sourced MySpace’s gadget renderer (project Negroni), and recently contributed DigiTrust/GDPR-aware integrations to the popular Prebid.js header-bidding ecosystem. Chris has a track record of transforming organizations—shifting legacy SDLCs to agile Scrum, re-architecting services for scale, and launching startups and consulting practices—while remaining active in standards and open-source communities. Based in Seattle, he blends entrepreneurial grit with enterprise rigor and a knack for aligning technical direction to business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
compliance10
javascript10
front-end-development10
gdpr10
header-bidding10
prebid10
adapter9
consent-management9
adaptor9
html9
testing8
opensocial6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
prebid/Prebid.js
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 17 PRs, 55 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on integrating and maintaining the DigiTrust ID system within the Prebid.js framework, a header bidding solution. Their contributions involved adding, modifying, and testing code related to the DigiTrust integration, including facade objects and user ID retrieval. They also addressed GDPR compliance by incorporating vendor consent checks and ensuring proper handling of consent signals. Furthermore, the user made updates to example files and integration scenarios.
headerprebidjavascriptconfusingbidding
InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/Prebid.js
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Contributions:35 commits, 39 pushes, 14 branches in 11 months
headerprebidjavascriptconfusingbidding
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