Cole Ellison
Senior Software Engineer at Figma
Burlington, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Ellison is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building frontend platforms and web performance systems, currently shaping developer experience at Figma. He has led performance initiatives at Squarespace—doubling the share of sites with good LCP—and modernized testing and monorepo workflows at Grammarly, cutting CI time and cloud costs significantly. Comfortable across tooling, data pipelines, and browser extension engineering, he brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on implementation and mentorship. Based in Burlington, Vermont, Cole pairs a mathematics background with practical product instincts and an uncommon side note of whimsical GitHub flair—“ringpops won't feed baby caterpillars”—that hints at a playful creative streak.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Universidad de La RiojaBachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics at Middlebury CollegeComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Horizons School of Technology
Spanish, English
Github Skills (67)
appwrite10
markdown10
javascript10
dsa-algorithm10
lighthouse10
audit10
android10
programming-tools10
react-native10
performance-analysis10
react10
form-data9
developer-tools9
expressjs9
instrumentation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
crellison/esh
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
crellison/hexpalette
Jul 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:82 commits, 67 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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