ColeĀ White
Site Reliability Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolCole White is a Site Reliability Engineer with seven years of experience building and operating resilient backend systems from Boise, Idaho. He combines hands-on SRE leadership at Clearwater Analytics with production reliability work at the Wikimedia Foundation, contributing back-end fixes and performance improvements to the core MediaWiki project. Comfortable across systems engineering, SRE team leadership, and software development, he focuses on authentication, session management, logging, and observability to drive measurable uptime and debugging velocity. Notably, his open-source commits to Wikimedia improved session and transport components, reflecting a pragmatic knack for making large, widely used platforms more robust.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Biblical Studies, Associate of Science (AS), Biblical Studies at Boise Bible College
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Github Skills (7)
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apidoc9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
š» The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. MirrorĀ fromĀ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. SeeĀ https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access forĀ contributing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Cole primarily focused on back-end development within the MediaWiki project, as evidenced by their contributions to the UDPTransport, SessionManager, and authentication-related API components. Their commits involved refactoring code, implementing metrics, and improving logging. They addressed specific bugs related to session management and authentication events by updating code to pass proper string representations and making other code improvements. Their work improved performance.
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shdubsh/service-runner
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Generic nodejs service supervisor
Contributions:35 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
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