# Nolan C.

> Senior Software Engineer @ Coalesce.io

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nolanc

Senior software engineer with 4+ years professional experience. Full-stack competence, currently working primarily in TypeScript (both Node and React).

I like to design things and approach practical problems creatively, and in this stretch of my career, I'm enjoying a senior role in a startup environment.

Previously, 6+ years previous professional technical experience in live music audio engineering, working with mix engineering & sound design tools and analog hardware to build robust user experiences for artists and audiences. From that field, I carried over technical problem-solving aptitude and experience on dynamic teams to the software engineering domain.

Currently also dabbling a bit in Rust on the side!

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer (L4) @ Coalesce.io
Jan 2022 – Present
- developing scalable & reliable SaaS pipeline tools for Fortune 500 data engineering teams
- joined as 9th engineer
- achieved a 70% size reduction for deployment requirements, reducing company storage costs & improving user browser app/CLI tool performance metrics
- enhanced job sentinel performance by 30x, bolstering deployment reliability
- ported multiple features to new APIs/services, improving UX at scale

### Frontend Developer (Contract) @ ThePrepared.com
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
• Developing component modules for a UI kit/component library (React, Storybook, Jest, React Testing Library, Figma)

### Open Source Contributor @ MoveOn
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Working on large production codebase (React, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Docker)

• Collaboration & pair-programming with team leads, senior developers, fellow contributors with user & community feedback

• Spoke is a text platform delivering high quality, backwards compatible software to aid organizational partners’ campaigns

### Front-End Engineering @ Turing School of Software & Design
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
(See Education)

### Audio Engineer @ Unknown
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | Denver/Boulder, CO
• Worked in teams of varying size & build - on engineering teams of 2-15 people, under engineering leads and production/stage managers; sometimes occupied role as team lead

• Gathered needs and functional requirements from clients & presented those findings to a production team

• Developed technical specifications and audio schema based on artist input, user needs, & venue resources

• Crafted user experience for both artists and audience

• Maintained & troubleshot technical systems - worked with schematics & documentation, tracked issues & communicated these to managers & clients

• Established streamlined workflow processes across an engineering team (building & iterating on template files, calibrating PA systems, organizing shared equipment) & with artists (operational milestones, audio schema)

• Responsible for facilitating live music performances with a high production value and in a timely manner on a tight production schedule

• Long-standing contract work and/or staff positions (further itemized below in Experience section):
- venues incl. Caribou Room (’17-present), Lazy Dog Live Music (’15-’19), Pop-Up (’17-18), Boulder Theater (’15-’19), Fox Theater (’15-19)
- annual festivals incl. Upslope Get Down (3x), Frozen Dead Guy Days (3x), Hanuman (2x) 
- companies incl. Sweetwave Audio, Z2 Entertainment, Front Range Backline
- private clients & bands

• My roles sometimes expanded to Stage Manager, Artist Liaison, Lighting Designer, Backline Tech, Stagehand

### Musician @ Unknown
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Denver/Boulder, CO
• Improvised music with live bands of 3-10 people, requiring enhanced team communications & adaptability

• Composed & arranged music for bands of 3-10 people

• Communicated technical concepts & language across teams

• Wrote, transcribed, and performed piano/organ/synthesizer parts

• Hired as band member, sideman, improv musician, and jam session host

• Roles sometimes expanded to instrument/gear technical operation & maintenance, digital audio production

• Longer-term national touring projects included Kessel Run ('18-'20), Lady and the Gentlemen ('16-'18)

### Keyboardist @ Kessel Run Music
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Denver, CO

### Monitor Engineer / Stage Manager @ Sweetwave Audio
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Nederland, CO

### FOH Audio Engineer & Light Designer @ Lazy Dog Live Music
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Boulder, CO

### Production Staff - Audio & Stage @ Z2 Entertainment, LLC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | Boulder, CO

### Backline Tech @ Front Range Backline Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Broomfield, CO

### Audio Tech @ Hanuman Festival
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Boulder, CO

### Stage Manager / Monitor Engineer /  Artist Liaison @ Frozen Dead Guy Days
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Nederland, CO

### Keyboardist @ Lady and the Gentlemen
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Boulder, Colorado, United States

### Producer/Mix Engineer @ Violet Recording
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Boulder, CO

### Audio Tech @ LaunchPad Festival
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boulder, CO

### Tutor/Teacher @ The Princeton Review
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Boulder, CO


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in History
University of Virginia

### Software Engineering in Front-End Development
Turing School of Software & Design
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Northwestern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nolancaine
- GitHub: https://github.com/n0land0

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Last updated: 2026-03-22