Summary
Guy Cole is an experienced engineer with 14+ years delivering robust systems across cloud, mobile, and embedded domains, currently improving cloud-managed networks at Cisco Meraki. His career spans founding a contract shop and hands-on roles at Rivian, Cruise, Facebook, and Cisco, contributing to commercial products like Facebook Messenger, Cisco cable modems, HP Instant Support, and Motorola HA-LINUX. Deeply practical, he blends SRE, Kubernetes, AWS, Python, Go, and C/C++ expertise to drive availability and observability at scale. He has also taught advanced Java and mobile courses for UC Berkeley and UC Davis, translating complex concepts into usable skills. Known for contracting flexibility and travel readiness, he pairs broad systems architecture experience with a builder’s mindset and a proven track record of shipping production software.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at San Diego State University
English, Spanish