Cole Koester

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Software developer with 5 years of experience in full-stack programming and cloud architectures, migrations, and operations. Improves and debugs large scale systems while minimizing user disruptions.

Lyft Inc.

New York, NY

Software Engineer, Marketplace Forecasting, 12/2024 - Present

Demand by Distance Buckets: Bucketize demand outputs for better pricing adjustments.

Forecasting Latency SLOs: Add latency and availability SLOs on the forecasting platform.

Software Engineer, Production Infrastructure, 11/2021 - 12/2024

Zone Aware Routing: Improved intra availability zone routing with ROI of $2 million.

No More Yaml (NoMoYa): Decreased time-to-deploy networking settings from 15 minutes to less than 30 seconds.

Control Plane Backend Sharding: Collaborated with tech lead to simplify endpoint discovery.

Networking Day-to-Day

iManage LLC

Chicago, IL

Software Engineer, API, 11/2019 - 08/2021

IP Whitelisting and Subdomains: Implemented requirements with ROI of $1.8 M / Year.

API Gateway: Deployed new API gateway edge proxy serving 30M requests / day with a 99.95% success rate SLA.

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