Summary
Cole Ingraham is a software architect and educator with 14 years of professional experience who transitioned from a career in music to lead AI and product-focused engineering teams. He has spent the last seven years specializing in generative AI, semantic search, and recommendation systems, building production ML systems from prototype to scale at companies like Amper Music, Shutterstock, and Bluecore. As Chief Scientist at Amper he authored core generative music systems that contributed to the company's acquisition, and at Shutterstock he shipped a large-scale audio search engine and an AI-generated music library. More recently he coaches and trains practitioners as a Lead AI Instructor at NYC Data Science Academy and a multi-year Elite Contract Instructor at Pluralsight, delivering enterprise-ready curricula. Cole combines deep academic credentials in music composition (DMA, MFA, BM) with hands-on ML engineering and cross-functional leadership, uniquely bridging creative signal processing and commercial product delivery. He often brings non-obvious strengths to projects: an ear for audio and composition that guides more nuanced feature design in multi-modal AI and music-focused applications.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BM Music Composition, BM Music Composition at University of the Pacific
MFA Electronic Music & Recording Media, MFA Electronic Music & Recording Media at Mills College
DMA Music Composition, DMA Music Composition at University of Colorado Boulder
Japanese, Chinese, English