Summary
Corey Cole is a founding software engineer in Seattle with 13 years of experience building full-stack and systems software across startups and research groups. He combines low-latency systems work in C/Rust and real-time audio signal processing with backend expertise in Python, SQL, and cloud services to ship products used by thousands of users. As an early hire at Chestnut he’s helping replatform insurance producer management, and previously co-founded Kernel Labs to deliver sub-200ms audio sync, hardware integrations for enterprise customers, and ML-powered mobile voice apps. He has a University of Washington CS background with a math minor and a demonstrated ability to reverse technical debt, mentor engineers, and own product-facing features end-to-end. Notably, he’s shipped quantized ML inference on Android and built corporate-grade hardware integrations, reflecting a rare mix of embedded, ML, and cloud experience.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science custom track in Informatics Math minor, B.S. Computer Science custom track in Informatics Math minor at University of Washington
Spanish, English