Brian Cole

I’m a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years architecting and delivering scalable, high-performance, cloud-native enterprise applications across healthcare, financial services, and data-intensive platforms. I translate business requirements into robust technical solutions—optimizing performance, improving scalability, and accelerating delivery timelines in Agile environments.

My core strength is building end-to-end systems: responsive SPA frontends with React and Angular, secure backend services with Java and Spring Boot microservices, and API layers that integrate cleanly with complex third-party ecosystems. I design distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and real-time data flows using Apache Kafka, RESTful APIs, and GraphQL.

I’m hands-on with AWS and modern DevOps practices, deploying resilient services using EC2, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, Docker, and Kubernetes. I also build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, with strong observability through CloudWatch and ELK, plus monitoring tooling like Prometheus/Grafana.

I’ve led multiple production-grade platforms, mentoring junior developers, driving architectural decisions, and enforcing security and compliance best practices (OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, HIPAA compliance). Whether it’s experimentation/feature flag platforms, real-time ads delivery, or healthcare patient portals, I focus on reliability, fault tolerance, and measurable business impact.