Noel Cothren
Senior Software Engineer at Confluent
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolNoel Cothren is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building thoughtful, people-centered web interfaces and leading frontend architecture for cloud products. Currently on Confluent's Experiences & Interfaces team, he specializes in React-driven UIs and has a track record of improving developer and user experience at data and notebook platforms like Noteable. He combines strong design sensibilities from a Fine Arts background with hands-on engineering—having led frontend teams using Vue/Nuxt, Redux, RxJS and LAMP-era stacks—to deliver accessible, reusable component systems and in-house style guides. As a former agency owner, he pairs client-facing project leadership with technical delivery, handling everything from sales to ops for web projects. Based in Albuquerque, he brings a pragmatic blend of UX-first thinking and full-stack fluency that helps teams ship polished, maintainable products.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming Certificate Software Engineering, Computer Programming Certificate Software Engineering at Central New Mexico Community CollegeB.A. Fine/Studio Arts General, B.A. Fine/Studio Arts General at Abilene Christian UniversityGraduate-level coursework in linguistics education Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, Graduate-level coursework in linguistics education Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language at Concordia University-PortlandFull Stack Web Development Certificate Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Full Stack Web Development Certificate Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Deep Dive Coding Bootcamp by CNM Ingenuity, Inc.
Spanish, English
Github Skills (40)
confluent10
vscode-extension10
confluent-cloud10
vscode10
confluent-platform10
apache-kafka10
schema10
kafka-consumer10
kafka-producer9
kafka9
jetbrains-ides8
capstone8
visual-studio-code8
apache-flink8
progressive7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
solomonleyba/sprout-swap
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 324 pushes, 1 comment in 4 months
capstone
noeldevelops/css-animations-slides
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
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