Jesse Cotton
Full Stack Developer at BITLANCER LLC
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Cotton is a seasoned Full Stack Developer and DevOps engineer with over a decade of experience designing, automating, and operating cloud-native and on-premise systems. He has led end-to-end delivery of data-intensive SaaS platforms, reducing memory use and infrastructure costs by half and building production-ready ETL, CI/CD, and containerized pipelines. As a co-founder who scaled a consulting firm into SaaS products and exited in 2025, he blends hands-on engineering with product and business acumen. Jesse contributes to open-source projects like a PHP OpenStack SDK and a Java web crawler, showing a focus on code quality, test coverage, and operational flexibility. Comfortable moving between DevOps, MLOps, and full-stack roles, he’s known for translating complex technical designs to non-technical stakeholders and improving developer experience through tooling and automation. Based in San Diego, he pairs infrastructure-as-code expertise with a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable, high-performance systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stockton University
Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
web-crawler10
webscraper10
configuration-management10
webscraping10
java10
crawling10
javas10
php10
html-parsing10
crawler10
apidoc9
http9
api9
openstack9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yasserg/crawler4j
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
Open Source Web Crawler for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 13 PRs, 10 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the core functionality of the crawler, enhancing its capabilities and configurability. Their work included adding features like retrieving the number of scheduled pages and creating handlers for 3xx HTTP status codes. Furthermore, the user made the thread monitoring, shutdown, and cleanup delays configurable, improving the crawler's operational flexibility. They also implemented parsing of script elements as links and added features to respect meta robots flags and rel="nofollow" attributes, refining the crawler's behavior.
javaweb-crawler
rackspace/php-opencloud
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
The PHP SDK for OpenStack clouds
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on enhancing the existing PHP SDK for OpenStack clouds. Their contributions included implementing image backup support with new functionality in the `Server.php` file. They also added unit tests to validate the new feature, demonstrating a focus on code quality and thorough testing of the new functionality. The user also refactored some code to align with more current best practices.
openstackphp
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