Kristopher Cotten
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristopher Cotten is a seasoned software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with seven years delivering end-to-end, cloud-native systems from architecture through production support. He has strong backend and infrastructure expertise—designing resilient AWS deployments (EKS/ECS/Terraform/Pulumi), improving CI/CD for developer enablement, and driving fault analysis and root-cause remediation across distributed systems. His experience spans telecom 5G network functions in Go, data platform work with Kafka and Avro, and comprehensive testing strategies using Pytest and Playwright to raise code reliability. He mentors junior engineers and champions engineering best practices, translating legacy systems into scalable microservice architectures. Notably, his background includes hands-on operational roles—from nuclear electrician in the US Navy to field technician—which gives him a pragmatic, systems-first approach to debugging and reliability.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Santa Rosa Junior CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
supply-chain-security8
security8
artifacts8
chain8
devops6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kcotten/empapp
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Demo app using Angular, Spring Boot, and MongoDB
Contributions:32 PRs, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
spring-bootdemo-appangular-springspringangular
kcotten/restep
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Example rest endpoint
Contributions:16 PRs, 15 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 4 months
redisdockerendpointrestprometheus
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