Cole Gottdank
Co-Founder at Helicone
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolCole Gottdank is a software engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer-facing tooling, now co-founding Helicone to deliver observability for LLM-powered applications. He progressed from backend roles at DraftKings—shaping microservices and an NFT marketplace—to API integration and monitoring work at eMoney Advisor, giving him deep practice in reliability, API design, and production telemetry. Comfortable across .NET and modern web stacks, Cole combines hands-on implementation with product-oriented architecture decisions that prioritize scale. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he blends startup grit with enterprise experience and an eye for developer experience that informs Helicone’s mission to make large-model behavior transparent and debuggable.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Front End Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at West Chester University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Software Engineering at Shippensburg University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Science - BS Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Software Engineering at University of Leicester
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Github Skills (72)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
colegottdank/colegottdank
Jul 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:123 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
colegottdank/hackwcu2019
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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