David Cotten
Software Engineer at Zipline
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Cotten is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with eight years of experience building reliable, maintainable systems and integrations across startups and enterprise teams. Currently at Zipline after a rapid progression from Software Engineer to Staff Software Engineer at DUST Identity, he excels at reading logs, debugging complex issues, and turning legacy scripts into well-documented automation and microservices. Based in Colorado, he brings a disciplined, accountable approach—owning mistakes and closing knowledge gaps—and a knack for creating practical tooling that improves operational efficiency. His background in municipal roles led him to build internal databases and logging tools early in his career, reflecting a long-standing interest in using software to streamline real-world workflows.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Associate of Science - AS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Dallas College
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Github Skills (17)
discord10
discord-bot10
discord-py9
logging8
python8
sdk8
distributed-tracing7
opentelemetry6
cx-freeze6
macos6
jira6
video-conferencing6
marshmallow4
dataclass3
serialization2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
davidecotten/waifu-bot
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:21 PRs, 39 pushes, 57 branches in 7 months
Waifus4Lifu/waifu-badge
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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