Cole Cramer is a self-taught blockchain developer in Seattle with seven years of engineering experience and a background spanning manufacturing engineering and co-founding a video production company. He now contracts with DeFi protocols, bringing practical systems thinking from designing IoT-enabled production lines and custom hardware to building robust backend features for web3 projects. His open-source work includes backend contributions to the ordinals/ord project, adding media-type support and recursive endpoints to improve previews and API responses for rare sats. Comfortable across hardware, manufacturing CAD, video production, and smart-contract ecosystems, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on implementation. Notably, his career blends tight-deadline creative delivery with methodical engineering, enabling rapid, production-ready iterations in decentralized applications.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Manufacturing Engineering Technology (CAD/CAM), Bachelor's Degree, Manufacturing Engineering Technology (CAD/CAM) at Western Washington University
Contributions:31 reviews, 30 PRs, 168 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Cole primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure of the project, focusing on adding support for various media types and features. Their work involved modifying the `src/media.rs` file to incorporate new media types, such as Markdown, code, and fonts, and creating corresponding preview functionalities in `src/subcommand/server.rs` and template files. The user implemented recursive endpoints, including one for children, and integrated address fields into API responses, improving the functionality of the platform.
Contributions:336 reviews, 350 PRs, 347 pushes in 5 months
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