Cole Townsend
Co-Founder at Sole Retriever
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCole Townsend is a Cambridge-based co-founder and Head of Tech with 13 years of experience shaping product-focused design and engineering teams. He combines hands-on full‑stack development with product design sensibilities, having led web and mobile platform delivery, contractor vetting, and team building at Sole Retriever. Previously a senior product designer at Robin, Cole helped translate workplace experience needs into usable, tested interfaces while balancing speed and thoughtful iteration. He contributes to open-source projects—such as porting the Balzac AnchorCMS theme to Jekyll—demonstrating attention to responsive design and front-end craftsmanship. Trained in art history, he blends visual rigor with practical engineering, advocating for patient, ego-free teams that can fail fast and learn faster. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who prioritizes culture as the core driver of exceptional products.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Canisius High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Art History, Bachelor's Degree, Art History at Williams College
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Github Skills (9)
html10
theme-development10
css10
jekyll10
front-end-development9
liquid9
responsive-design9
sass9
javascript7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ColeTownsend/Balzac-for-Jekyll
Aug 2013 - Jun 2018
Your favorite AnchorCMS theme, now for Jekyll!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:170 commits, 22 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Cole contributed to the Jekyll theme Balzac, converting the original AnchorCMS theme for use with Jekyll. They made changes to layouts such as page, post-index, and post. Significant changes included updating the head and navigation includes. There were also stylistic changes via CSS, including code formatting and responsive design adjustments.
liquidjekylljekyll-themefavorite
ColeTownsend/Balzac
Jun 2013 - Jun 2018
A simple, beautiful, anchor theme.
Contributions:131 commits, 20 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years
anchor-themeanchor
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