# Coleman W.

> Senior Software Engineer at LimitBreak

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/coleman

Self-driven problem solver with an unrelenting passion for designing and implementing technical solutions that scale. Polyglot developer with a diverse range of skills across many different technical stacks with a demonstrated ability to quickly adapt to new development environments. Natural ability to take on leadership roles with excellent interpersonal skills that help coordinate teams toward a common goal. Often referred to as a "10x Developer" due to an ability to develop across all layers of the technical stack.

Notable Open Source Projects:
Profiles: https://github.com/autom8ter

1000+ github stars
- https://github.com/autom8ter/machine:  a zero dependency library for highly concurrent Golang applications. It is inspired by errgroup.Group with extra bells & whistles
- https://github.com/autom8ter/dagger: a zero dependency directed acyclical graph library written in Golang
- https://github.com/autom8ter/myjson: MyJSON is an embedded relational document store built on top of pluggable key value storage


Notable Skills: 
- gRPC, REST, & graphQL API Development
- SQL & NOSQL databases
- Full Stack Authentication & Authorization
- Monitoring & Alerting
- Infrastructure Automation
- Container Orchestration
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
- UI/UX development (primarily React)
- Data Warehousing & ETL/ELT


I am comfortable discussing and engineering solutions utilizing the following technologies:
- Version Control: Git
- CI/CD: Gitlab/CircleCi
- Containerization: Docker
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes/Istio
- Service Mesh: Istio, Envoy, Open Policy Agent
- API Development: gRPC, REST/openapi, graphQL, Websockets
- System Monitoring: Prometheus, Jaeger, ELK stack, Grafana, Datadog
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Relational Databases: Postgres/MySQL
- Non-Relational Databases: Mongo, ElasticSearch, Redis, Firestore
- Backend K/V Stores: Redis
- PubSub/Message-Queue: Nats, Kafka, AWS SQS, Google Pubsub, Redis
- Authentication/Authorization: OAuth, OpenID Connect, Role Based Access Control
- User Interface Development: React, Redux, MaterialUI, Tailwind

I am comfortable discussing and engineering solutions conforming to the following paradigms:
- Object Oriented Programming
- Functional Programming
- The 12 Factor App
- Infrastructure/Configuration as Code
- Service Mesh/Microservices
- PubSub/Event Sourcing
- Distributed Transactions

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Limit Break
Jan 2023 – Present

### Principal Software Engineer @ Choozle
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
As Principal Engineer I am the primary architect and a heavy individual contributor within the following domains:
- API design and integration
- Authentication/Authorization
- CI/CD
- Cloud Infrastructure (Networking, Compute, Storage, etc)
- Monitoring/Alerting
- Database Administration (SQL and NOSQL)
- ETL/ELT pipelines
- Data Warehousing
- Embedded BI
- Machine Learning Infrastructure
- Reverse Engineering Legacy Systems

On any given day at Choozle, you can find me:
- Defining the implementation details of feature requests from the product team
- Configuring and deploying infrastructure to properly support our development environments
- Mentoring junior developments
- Performing code reviews
- Creating and updating architecture diagrams
- Picking up tickets and writing code as an individual contributor(Golang/Typescript/SQL)
- Debugging production issues
- Coordinating the development of features across teams of developers that have cross-cutting concerns

### Senior Software Engineer @ Choozle
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Denver, Colorado, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Frontdoor, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Denver Metropolitan Area
As a Senior Software Engineer, I mostly focused on full stack authentication and authorization within our internal Container as a Service offering.

Breakdown Project Ownership & Contribution

- Ownership of the creation, development, testing, and distribution of a javascript/typescript npm module used for authenticating customers on the frontend via OAuth Proof Code Key Exchange. It is used in production environments company-wide.
- Ownership of the creation, development, testing, and deployment of an API & frontend npm module for acquiring short-lived guest tokens for use in anonymous/guest flows. It is used in production environments company-wide.
- Ownership of creation, development, testing, and deployment of an API used for managing customer profiles administratively. It is used in production environments company-wide.
- Ownership of the creation, development, testing, and distribution of a command-line-interface used to log-in corporate developers in & acquire auth tokens. 
- Ownership of the creation, development, testing, and distribution of a command-line-interface used to migrate users from an old database to a new customer identity platform
- Ownership of the creation & maintenance our homebrew repository for distributing internal tools to developers across the company
- I frequently consulted development teams across the company on Corporate and Customer authentication/authorization using OAuth and Open ID Connect
- I frequently consulted development teams across the company on API development in gRPC, REST, and/or graphQL

### Software Engineer @ ShaleApps
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Denver Area
As the only backend Software Engineer at an early stage startup, I was responsible for nearly all things related to the backend, database, and dev/ops infrastructure.

Breakdown Project Ownership & Contribution

- Writing public & private API endpoints
- Managing continuous integration & deployment via Circle CI
- Managing databases(migrations, administration, triggers)
- Managing several Kubernetes clusters
- Creating application & systems metrics for alerting using Prometheus
- Creating Grafana dashboards for alerting
- Writing shell scripts and Makefiles
- Writing cron jobs

Notable projects:
- Single Sign On via OAuth2 with Azure Active Directory
- Writing a Geofencing Microservice
- Writing a User Microservice
- Writing a GeoLocation Microservice using the Mapbox & Google Maps API's
- Excel spreadsheet generation
- Led team on gRPC API development
- Created self-healing infrastructure with Prometheus and Grafana webhooks
- Converted entire infrastructure to Infrastructure as code, managed by Terraform and Helm
- Integrated sensor-based customer API's with our own
- Solely responsible for managing 6 Kubernetes clusters at all hours of the week
- Solely responsible for managing 7 Databases(3 production) at all hours of the week

### Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Denver, Colorado
Breakdown Project Ownership & Contribution

- Writing API endpoints(gRPC)
- Responding to support requests related to microservices I worked on
- Automated Chaos Testing in Kubernetes to ensure cluster remained healthy
- Creating application & systems metrics for alerting using Prometheus and Jaeger
- Writing shell scripts and Makefiles
- Writing cron jobs

Notable projects:
- Helping Write an Automated certificate generation microservice
- Writing automated chaos tests to ensure our Kubernetes cluster remained healthy
- Integrating custom application metrics for a number of microservices.

### Business Intelligence Developer @ European Wax Center
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Denver Area
Utilized various software to drastically improve operational procedures. My design and implementation of Domo business analytics and Slack collaboration software allowed myself and my team to make data-driven decisions that led to  90% less turnover, 120% more positive reviews, 20% increased profit margins, and 15% increased revenue per month. 
Examples include: 
-Utilizing live KPI metrics to create sales “gamification”.
-Custom scripts for automated HR to payroll processing.
-Algorithms designed for inventory needs, as well as total employee hours needed based on a predictive model. 
-Webhooks integrated into slack to notify individual team members when they receive a review, when they have a pay stub available, and when shifts become available to pick up.
-Customized chatbot for employees to utilize for store documentation and FAQs.

### Manager @ European Wax Center
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater Denver Area


## Education
### Economics
Colorado State University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/coleman-w
- GitHub: https://github.com/autom8ter

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Last updated: 2026-03-22