Cole J
Software Development Engineer II at Twitch
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole J is a Software Development Engineer II based in Seattle with a decade of experience building internal tooling and microservices at Twitch and prior roles on AWS teams including Lambda and EC2. He combines cloud-native systems knowledge from Amazon with practical, hands-on service standup and developer tooling expertise at Twitch. Beyond day job responsibilities he maintains notable open-source projects used by the Twitch community—most prominently TwitchLib and supporting tooling like TwitchTokenGenerator and TwitchAudio—demonstrating a focus on robustness and developer ergonomics. His contributions show attention to backend reliability and clean command parsing, reflecting a knack for refactoring messy edge cases into event-driven, maintainable code.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Boise State University
English
Github Skills (10)
event-driven10
eventing10
irc10
parsing10
csharp10
parse10
dotnet-core10
netstandard9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TwitchLib/TwitchLib
Sep 2015 - Nov 2022
C# Twitch Chat, Whisper, API and PubSub Library. Allows for chatting, whispering, stream event subscription and channel/account modification. Supports everything that supports .NETStandard 2.0
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 1069 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cole primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the backend functionality of the TwitchLib library. Their contributions involved restructuring the `LeaveChannel` method by transitioning to an event-based approach for handling network issues, which improved robustness. Furthermore, the user refactored command handling by introducing a `ChatCommand` object, improving code organization and implementing logic for parsing arguments, including those with quotes.
everythingpubsub-libraryevent-streambotsubscription
TwitchLib/TwitchLib.Unity
Feb 2018 - Sep 2021
TwitchLib repository representing all code belonging to the implementation of TwitchLib for Unity. Maintained primarily by LuckyNoS7evin.
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 15 commits in 3 years 7 months
twitch-apihelixtwitchlibtwitchchat-bot
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