Cole Garien
Principal Software Engineer at Koddi
Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Garien is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years' experience building scalable, high-performance systems and leading engineering teams to measurable business impact. He has a proven track record of reducing processing times from hours to minutes through architecture redesigns and automation, and has driven real-time auction engine refactors and tight-deadline platform launches that improved advertiser performance. Cole blends hands-on engineering (from legacy modernization to microservices) with strategic leadership—mentoring dozens of engineers, establishing CI/CD and code review standards, and aligning technical efforts with product goals. His background includes healthcare EMR systems and published HCI research, reflecting a knack for user-centered, compliant solutions as well as strong performance optimization. Based in the Oklahoma City area, he excels at turning complex requirements into reliable, auditable systems and lifting engineering practices across organizations. A detail often overlooked: he pairs deep technical delivery with sustained developer coaching initiatives (book clubs, mentoring) that institutionalize cleaner code and continual learning.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Central Oklahoma
Github Skills (4)
mud3
mmo2
bandwidth2
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
colegarien/zung
Oct 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 37 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
colegarien/Ozzyria
Nov 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 8 PRs, 193 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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