Cole Strain
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Strain is a software engineer based in Redmond with nine years of experience building interactive systems, currently working on video rendering for Microsoft Teams. A UCLA CS graduate with a software engineering focus, he brings deep Unity expertise from leading teams of 10+ students to ship a commercial game and contributed gameplay systems and AI at Buh Gaming. At Microsoft he interned on Windows, shipped a lasting C++ project, and triaged multiple OS-level bugs, demonstrating comfort in large-codebase engineering and platform tooling. He combines game-development creativity (AI controllers, Photon networking, A* pathfinding) with product-focused delivery in enterprise collaboration software, and aims to keep advancing his craft while making measurable improvements to user experiences.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (24)
xbox7
jam6
game-development5
applet5
timesheet4
dm4
adobe-experience-manager4
beancount4
cpp4
emulation4
alfresco3
spring3
sling3
j2ee3
jetty3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OlayColay/TheVinki
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Rain World mod where you can play as an angsty skater boy
Contributions:73 releases, 1 PR, 448 pushes in 1 year 9 months
OlayColay/Gravbeam
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:184 commits, 117 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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