Joshua Cole
Principal Software Engineer - GenAI at TackTech Inc.
Schertz, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Cole is a Principal Software Engineer and founder with 15 years of experience building scalable, production-ready systems and applying machine learning to drive business outcomes. Currently leading GenAI initiatives at Walmart Global Tech while founding TackTech Inc., he combines research-oriented thinking with pragmatic delivery across cloud-native architectures. His background includes deploying ML models that generated hundreds of millions in revenue at Facebook, designing blue/green CI/CD pipelines and A/B testing at Control4, and rescuing performance-critical services through horizontal scaling earlier in his career. Joshua is fluent across the stack—from Python/Django back ends and AWS/Lambda to real-time data pipelines—and favors solutions that enable measurable product experiments. Based in Schertz, Texas, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep systems engineering and a focus on optimal strategic reasoning.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Golden West College
English
Github Skills (38)
k-means-clustering10
jupyter-notebook10
mkdocs9
sphinx-doc9
python9
sphinx9
clustering9
betting8
deep-learning8
csf8
markdown8
speedtest8
trend7
jekyll7
kmeans7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jColeChanged/Programming-Collective-Intelligence
Dec 2013 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
jColeChanged/think-progress
Jan 2021 - May 2025
Reimagining progress bars in the light of the principles of good thinking and good map making. A progress bar for known out of known step counts with uniform step sizes which gives a better sense than a traditional progress bar of how long you have to go and how progress has been in the past.
Contributions:6 PRs, 79 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 4 months
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