Kris Cottingham
Lead Software Engineer at Redfin
Olathe, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Cottingham is a pragmatic lead software engineer with over three decades of engagement with technology and 15 years in senior engineering leadership roles, currently guiding platform efforts at Redfin. He excels as a facilitator-troubleshooter who prioritizes solving the problem over choosing trendy tools, enabling teams to be more productive and resilient. Kris has led engineering teams across startups and established firms—from founding-style roles at OneHQ to operational leadership at Rent.—bringing deep hands-on experience across the full development lifecycle. Based in Olathe, Kansas, he combines a long history of professional practice since 1991 with a hobbyist’s curiosity, reflected in a playful GitHub persona “Shark Tossing Calamity.” Known for steady, practical decision-making, he’s as comfortable unblocking a production incident as shaping long-term architecture and mentoring engineers.
15 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (200)
bundler10
nodejs10
bash10
multiple-languages10
powershell10
erlang10
kerbal-space10
cli10
executable10
npm10
react10
elixir10
api9
transpiler9
jsx9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
krisalyssa/finitemonkeys.org
Jan 2019 - Dec 2024
Source code for the website at finitemonkeys.org.
Contributions:8 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years
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