# Cole Knowlden

> Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/coleknowlden

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Amount
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Developer lead on a loan origination frontend application(React/Typescript/GraphQL) used by Amount partners

### Software Engineer @ Amount
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Developed React components for a loan servicing and verification platform used by Amount
partners.
- Created loan decisioning engines based on partner specifications in Ruby

### Senior Engineer @ CivicScape
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area
- Lead developer and architect of CrimeScape, a tool for police departments to assess the risk of crime in jurisdictions. CrimeScape was built using React, Flask, Postgres, and AWS.
- Implemented web security for CrimeScape using AWS GovCloud, security groups, reverse proxies, and Elastic Load Balancers.
- Developed IT tools and processes to deploy and manage the web application servers and the data pipelines.

### Software Developer @ Fulton Works
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Greater Chicago Area
- Developed, improved, and collaborated on over eight multiple month long web applications, including, but not limited to: makemyfresheners.com, ofsbrands.com, and officeluv.com. Responsibilities on these projects were programming front and back end of apps, corresponding with client and designer to best meet client needs, and testing thoroughly.
- Was able to quickly pick up new technologies and codebases to maintain and continue development on existing projects

### Research Assistant - Stuart Kurtz @ The University of Chicago
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
- Coded a website to gather information on seminars at University of Chicago through various websites and displays them together
- Used Python to scrape websites, and then create an xml file of the data. Built a PHP website that constructed a table from the xml file. 
- Also designed the site and wrote the CSS.

http://theorycenter.cs.uchicago.edu/seminars/

### Research Assistant – Elizabeth Pontikes @ University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
-Wrote code to analyze marketing documents and identify buzzwords
using python and the natural language toolkit
-Maintained an MySQL database of the results
-Used python to interact with linkedin api and provide information
on the authors

### Research Assistant - Jing Wu @ University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
-Performed regression's on data gathered using python
-Coded a program to gather SPLC data from a Bloomberg terminal using python and the Bloomberg API

### Monitor @ Chicago Academic Achievement Program
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014
-Monitored study sessions for students in CAAP

### Grader @ Financial Math Program at University of Chicago
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
- Graded homework for an intro to C++ class
- Helped students with problems in in-class labs

### Computer Science/Robotics Teacher @ Neighborhood Schools Program
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
- Received training in coding in python 
- Taught python and robotics to students
- Revised course teaching to accommodate students abilities

### Volunteer Teacher @ Peer Health Exchange
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
- Received training to become a volunteer teacher
- Taught sex education to freshmen in local Chicago high-schools


## Education
### Doctor of Law - JD
Fordham University School of Law

### BS in Computer Science;
University of Chicago

### Lake Stevens High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cole-knowlden

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Last updated: 2026-03-31