Corey Cole

An agent swarm game world builder to create multiplayer games with friends on a shared, secured server.
Real-time SSE server status dashboard with graphs, traffic metrics, and system info
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Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Founding engineer and generalist who ships across the full stack, from data pipelines to polished UIs.

Founding Engineer, Full Stack at a16z backed seed stage startup April 2024 to Present

Chestnut

Shipped >1.7k PRs >2.3k commits across >6k files in <2 years (if you care around 1M net lines of code)

Built full stack features for payouts, bonuses, compliance, onboarding, and data ingestion pipelines

Designed and built an agentic pipeline for researching the codebase and proposing code change plans

Self-hosted an internal OpenClaw Slack bot for engineering management, product research, and Linear ticket enrichment

Fixed bugs and improved code quality in parallel with feature work using LLM tooling

Senior Software Engineer, Cofounder of Omnicom.ai (microphone sync app) Jan 2020 to Dec 2023

Kernel Labs

Built real-time (<60ms) audio signal processing system to synchronize and echo-cancel in C/Rust

Delivered hardware integration for corporate contract with Hewlett-Packard (HP) in C/GStreamer

Shipped contacts+notes voice assistant app (Ciremi) in React Native Expo using GPT-4 via OpenAI API

Built and maintained full stack apps for 1000s of users in Typescript/React Native/AWS Lambda/Fargate/EC2

Quantized machine learning model for real-time audio signal inference on Android

Mentored junior developers and enhanced engineer productivity by simplifying codebases

Software Engineer, Cofounder of Halloo (Alexa/Google Home app) Apr 2018 to Jan 2020

Kernel Labs

Built Alexa & Google Home voice social network (like Houseparty) using Typescript/Python/AWS

Built Chrome Extension for de-noising audio with in-house ML model using JavaScript and Python

Developed an internal analytics, logs, and error browsing tool to streamline access to critical data

Software Engineer, Cofounder Sep 2015 to May 2018

BellHapp Inc

Built restaurant mobile web app for the dine-in experience of ordering and real-time staff messaging

Bootstrapped with 1-2 engineers; owned design and UX; led weekly meetings & task organization

Research Demo Builder for Babak Salimi & Dan Suciu Sep 2015 to May 2018

University of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering Department

Built best-in-conference demo for VLDB 2018 and demo'd at ACM SIGMOD 2018

Developed a SQL-based framework for drawing causal inference using Python and Postgres

Visualized and fixed bias in OLAP queries using Angular and Typescript

Software Engineer Jun 2015 to Sep 2015

eBay Enterprise

Built Magento e-commerce front-end linked to our legacy back-end as a proof of concept in PHP/SQL

Languages: Go, SQL, Typescript, Python, C, Rust

Backend: Temporal, Postgres, Datastar, SSE, AWS, EC2, Lambda, Docker, SQLite, redis, GStreamer

Frontend: React, Next, Tanstack Query, Proto Connect, Tailwind, React-Hook-Form, Zod, Shadcn

Tools: Neovim, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Linear, Excalidraw, Figma

University of Washington, Dean's List, Bachelor of Science Sep 2013 to June 2017

Computer Science custom track in Informatics, Math minor