Summary
Cole Nixon is a product-minded engineer with 8 years of experience designing and shipping cloud-hosted microservices and internal tools across fintech and healthcare domains. Originally a pre-med student, he pivoted to software and now blends backend expertise in Node/TypeScript, Java, GKE, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code with hands-on front-end work in Vue for operational tooling. He’s moved prototypes to production at scale, led interview and mentoring programs, and owned client onboarding and team processes for remote engineering teams. Based in Portland, he’s as passionate about productive, collaborative teams as he is about building pragmatic CLI and GUI solutions that reduce operational friction. An outdoors enthusiast, he brings the same curiosity and persistence from hiking and gardening into designing reliable systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland State University