# Cole Willsea

> web developer

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/colewillsea

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ MotorTrend Group
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
- Currently leading the front-end team at MotorTrend as we re-write our existing web app using Next.js, GraphQL, Tailwind, Typescript, and our newly built design system
- Working with stakeholders across the product org to find efficient and scaleable solutions that meet the needs or our ads, editorial, analytics, SEO, and design teams
- Establishing agile development processes to improve how our distributed front-end team collaborates and delivers products

### Senior Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed features across the Twitter Health ecosystem using React, Enzyme, Testing Library, GraphQL, Redux, Relay, and internal Twitter tools.
- Contributed to the Twitter web community by writing technical documentation, doing presentations on projects, and participating in the accessibility group
- Mentored junior, backend, and full-stack developers who were beginning to contribute to the Twitter web codebase through pairing sessions, code reviews, and 1:1s

### Senior Software Engineer @ REI
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
- Developed the REI Cedar design system libraries, working with Figma, Vue.js, Node, Webpack, Rollup, SASS, LESS, Jest, JSX, Spring, and other internal REI tooling
- Fully owned the development, QA and release cycle for the Cedar Vue.js component library, design token libraries, and doc site
- Collaborated with digital and IT teams to integrate the Cedar design system into their codebases and make improvements to accessibility and performance

### Software Engineer @ REI
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
- Developed front-end customer facing pages for REI Experiences projects using Vue.js, Webpack, Rollup, Node, SASS, and various internal front-end tools.
- Worked with the REI search team to index REI travel and events content in order to create new search experiences for both platforms
- Improved the accessibility and performance of REI Experiences pages

### Web Developer @ Amazon
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
- Developed front-end code for the Amazon Restaurants consumer experience using jQuery, JSP, Handlebars, Sass, and internal Amazon tools. Emphasized accessibility, scalability, cross-browser support, and backwards compatibility in all projects.
- Worked with other teams within the Restaurants department and across Amazon to integrate with existing services and deploy features in a variety of channels including the Amazon homepage, mobile apps, and marketing emails.
- Wrote a collection of shell scripts that automated and optimized our asset compilation process, which made our front-end development faster and less tedious.

### Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Monsoon was acquired by Capital One, I joined the Level Money team working on an API that served over a million users. 
- Refactored code and improved test coverage on a large microservice-based Clojure
codebase
- Provisioned resources and managed deployments for our application through AWS
- Set up a continuous integration system using CircleCI alongside a private Jenkins
box, with a Slack bot relaying failure messages directly to those responsible for
them
- Worked closely with support staff to conduct a full redesign of our customer
support interface using jQuery and Bootstrap

### Web Developer @ Monsoon Company
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Developed web applications for clients using Ruby on Rails, Ember, Node.js, and
Bootstrap. Employed test-driven development, continuous integration, and agile
practices on every project
- Built a mapping app for community organizers using Leaflet and Open
Street Map
- Created a project management tool for accountants that used Highcharts to display
data. Designed and implemented a subscription service using Stripe for payment
processing and Pundit to authorize access to different levels of the application
- Contributed to a corporate communications auditing app that runs on Bloomberg
terminals which used D3.js to provide overviews of the auditors organization


## Education
### Web Development
App Academy
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in political theory and sociology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2004 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/colewillsea
- GitHub: https://github.com/coleww

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Last updated: 2026-03-22