Iain Cole
Sr Software Eng at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIain Cole is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating low-latency live streaming systems, including work that became an AWS service. Based in San Francisco, he brings deep systems design and debugging skills honed at Twitch and now at AWS, with a knack for resolving issues from sparse customer reports. His background in live audio/video production and studio engineering gives him a practical edge in real-time media pipelines and broadcast-quality delivery. Iain combines hands-on coding with pragmatic leadership—often playing “the adult in the room” to keep complex projects on track. Outside core engineering, he’s organized youth concert tours and taught music technology, reflecting a rare blend of technical rigor and live-event empathy.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (2:2) Audio and Recording Technology, BSc (2:2) Audio and Recording Technology at De Montfort University
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Github Skills (62)
studio10
live-streaming10
development-kit10
broadcasting10
aws-cloud10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
directshow10
ffmpeg10
streaming-video10
obs10
facebook-live10
screen-recording10
terraform10
recording10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
IainCole/aws-cdk
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:44 pushes, 7 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
IainCole/SpaceXVideoApp
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:42 commits in 21 days
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