Summary
Cole French is a software engineer based in Portland, Oregon with a decade of practical experience building full-stack applications and tooling. Comfortable across C#, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Java, and C++, he has shipped work at Viewpoint and completed internships at Tektronix and Jet Global while supporting CS courses as a TA. He pairs web frameworks like React and Angular with backend ASP.NET and has explored ML with TensorFlow—most recently implementing a machine-learned Othello player as a personal project. Trained in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Portland, Cole combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic application development. Outside work he studies Japanese and plays piano, signaling a blend of discipline and creative curiosity that informs his engineering approach.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Portland