Cole Eason
Chief Compliance Officer at Expensify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Eason is a Chief Compliance Officer based in New York with a decade of professional experience blending technical know-how and regulatory oversight. At Expensify since 2016, he pairs leadership in compliance with hands-on backend engineering contributions—most notably to a robust distributed database (Expensify/Bedrock) involving state management, WAN replication fixes, and adding SHA256/HMAC256 support. His background includes progressive technical support roles and teaching leadership at the University of Missouri and iD Tech, reflecting an ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences. Trained in business administration with a finance emphasis, he brings a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to technology and governance. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves comfortably between code-level problem solving and organization-wide compliance strategy. He quietly bridges engineering detail and policy, ensuring systems are both reliable and auditable.
10 years of coding experience
University of Missouri
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sql9
database-design9
networking8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Expensify/Bedrock
Oct 2016 - Oct 2021
Rock solid distributed database specializing in active/active automatic failover and WAN replication
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 134 reviews, 502 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Cole made code changes related to the internal workings of the "bedrock" distributed database, including database state management and networking. They contributed to fixing bugs, reverting changes, and modifying internal database logic related to SQL operations. Additionally, the user updated help output and removed a status from the default plugins. The user also added SHA256 and HMAC256 support.
rockdistributed-databasedatabasefailoverreplication
coleaeason/sha256hasher
Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
Simple multi-threaded CLI tool written in C++ for creating SHA256 hashes from a file
Contributions:5 PRs, 32 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
cppsha256cli-toolhashesmulti-threaded
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