Coleman Word
Senior Software Engineer at Limit Break
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolColeman Word is a Senior Software Engineer based in Denver with seven years of experience building scalable, full-stack systems and cloud-native infrastructure. He is a polyglot engineer and hands-on architect who moves between Go and TypeScript while owning API design (gRPC/REST/GraphQL), auth systems, CI/CD, and distributed data pipelines. Coleman has led production-grade efforts at companies from Apple to startups and currently contributes at Limit Break after serving as Principal Engineer at Choozle, where he combined heavy individual contribution with cross-team architecture and mentorship. A prolific open-source maintainer, he’s the author of notable Go projects including graphikDB and the pluggable stategate gateway, which together have earned community recognition. Beyond code, he blends product sensibility and operational rigor—building monitoring, self-healing infrastructure, and developer tooling that keep complex systems reliable.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at Colorado State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (115)
identity10
backend10
streaming10
concurrency10
directed-graph10
mutex10
stack10
location10
neo4j10
queue10
concurrent10
graph10
directed-acyclic-graph10
generics10
cron10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
graphikDB/trigger
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
a decision & trigger framework backed by Google's Common Expression Language
Contributions:40 commits, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 27 days
trigger-frameworkdecisiontriggerbackedexpression-language
graphikDB/graphik
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
Graphik is a Backend as a Service implemented as an identity-aware document & graph database with support for gRPC and graphQL
Contributions:19 releases, 1 review, 360 commits in 1 year 6 months
graphikgrpcas-a-servicebackenddatabase
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