Kace Cottam
Software Engineer at Black Canyon Consulting LLC
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKace Cottam is a software engineer and operations research scientist with nine years of experience designing and optimizing complex systems, currently contributing at Black Canyon Consulting and formerly at Laminaar Aviation Infotech. He specializes in CI/CD, performance benchmarking, algorithm development, and linear programming, and has a documented track record of halving processing times through targeted optimizations. Kace blends hands-on C# engineering with research-driven approaches—having accelerated Max Cut solutions by 20% using a hybrid Digital Annealer/Gurobi workflow—and routinely integrates open-source tools and cloud benchmarking on AWS. Comfortable liaising with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, he pairs technical depth with pragmatic project management to drive cost-efficient, production-ready results. A Washington State University CS major with minors in Math and Japanese, he’s known for mentoring peers and introducing developer productivity tools like ReSharper and Copilot to improve team output.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.6 GPA, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.6 GPA at Washington State University - Honors College
Japanese, French
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Github Skills (89)
webextension10
launcher10
twitter10
nitter10
quora10
chrome-extension10
nimble10
youtube9
steam9
music9
firefox-addon9
windows9
spotify9
wpf9
desktop9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KaceCottam/WireStructure
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
This is a GUI application that allows for construction and simulation of circuits using simple mouse and keyboard controls.
Contributions:10 PRs, 169 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
pythoncircuitsmousesimulationgui
KaceCottam/ThisGame1
May 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
csharp
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