Joseph Cotton
Director Of Foundational Technology
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Cotton is a seasoned technology leader with 11+ years of experience architecting cloud-native platforms and driving engineering transformation across gaming, finance, and retail. Currently Director of Foundational Technology at Electronic Arts, he has progressed through QE and enterprise architecture roles focused on tooling, quality, and scalable platform strategy for mobile and studio-wide initiatives. Previously he led cloud migration and security strategy at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and delivered multi-million-dollar platform modernizations at Petco and Caesars, combining hands-on integration expertise with budget and people leadership. Known for pragmatic decision frameworks (rehost/refactor/rebuild/replace) and API-led integration strategies, he blends deep systems thinking with measurable business impact—e.g., large-scale POS rollouts and significant operational savings. Based in Oakland, he pairs a Software Engineering and Philosophy background with a playful engineering wit—“To software, or not to software”—that underscores a thoughtful, outcome-oriented approach.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Alabama School of Math and ScienceBS, Software Engineering, Philosophy, BS, Software Engineering, Philosophy at The University of Alabama
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Github Skills (172)
golang10
dependency-manager10
godoc10
cgo10
lambda9
recurring9
identity9
saml9
authentication9
switch9
keycloak9
openid-connect9
authorization9
versioning8
aws-codebuild8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
teuber789/cs-basics
Jul 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
jtcotton63/CS465-Project02-REV00
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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