Kevin Cole — Resume

Summary

Full stack software developer with 20+ years of experience building and maintaining web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure — primarily for early-stage startups. Proficient across many languages and architectures, with broad experience from CI/CD to CSS. Fast learner who enjoys collaborating with others and mentoring new developers.

Skills

languages: typescript, javascript, python, php, java

fullstack frameworks: django, next.js, laravel

ai coding: claude code, cursor, chatGPT

frontend: vite, astro, react, angular, backbonejs, retool, SEO, SSR

backend: express, node.js, flask, akka, codeigniter, mysql, postgresql, sql server, s3, rest, graphql

infrastructure: aws, git, sst, docker, jenkins

integrations: stripe, twilio, segment, customerio, check, front, checkr

Experience

OSE of New Mexico 2025 - Present

Software Developer

State agency managing New Mexico water rights

Hired to complete a full rebuild of a legacy Access-based water rights management application into a modern Laravel application utilizing Livewire
Architected a framework to easily recreate legal reports required for business operations that export wysiwyg to pdf and MS Word
Oversaw ETL process to ensure all water right data is properly transferred to a new SQL schema
Worked with business owners to expedite delivery in 8 months

buildforce 2020 - 2025

Staff Software Engineer and Architect

Marketplace application for construction contractors

Built an serverless (SST) typescript/graphql backend leveraging AWS services, Apollo Server and a Postgresql datastore
Architected an event driven backend architecture using AWS Kinesis stream
Built and supported React, React native, Next.js and Retool (low-code) frontend
Integrated Segment as a third party pub/sub
Set up CustomerIO (using Segment events) for customer communications
Integrated other third party applications including Front, Aircall, CheckR and Check Payroll

favor delivery 2014 - 2020

Staff Software Engineer

On demand delivery marketplace app

Helped to rewrite and re-architect PHP monolith into a more service oriented structure
Collaborated in architecting, building and maintaining real-time monitoring of active deliveries
Led team in re-factoring payment services to use Stripe
Architected, built and maintained service for maintaining customer coupons and credits
Refactored code to better protect our data and servers from malicious actors

Generation Ready 2012 - 2014

Software Developer

Educational CRM and Consultant Solutions

Maintain legacy CRM written in proprietary PHP framework
Built education consultation software with a CodeIgniter (php) backend and a backbonejs frontend

e-MDs 2005 - 2012

Software Developer and Manager

Client server EMR (electronic medical records) application written in Delphi eventually migrated to a javascript/jquery online application

Maintained and improved Charting application including use of natural language processing methodologies
Rewrote prescription writing module for better maintainability as well add threaded services for electronic delivery
Learned how to debug OO structure with deep inheritance structure
Eventually promoted to team manager overseeing the work of 5 developers
Maintained application build scripts
Helped chart the migration to javascript/jquery solution