# Colton Karoses Colton Karoses is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake, based in United States. Source: https://himalayas.app/@coltonkaroses ```text I build resilient distributed data, streaming, and customer-facing software for large-scale platforms. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Open to opportunities | | Location | United States | | Authorized to work in | United States | | Salary expectations | 60k+ USD | | Job categories | Software Engineer, Backend Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Data Engineer | | Skills | Java, Kotlin, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, NodeJS, C++, C#, Go, Object Oriented Design, Functional Programming, REST APIs, gRPC, GraphQL, Microservices, Event Driven Architecture, React, Redux, HTML5, CSS, Single Page Applications, Responsive UI, Webpack, Babel, Storybook, Design Systems, Accessibility, cross browser compatibility, SQL, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Data Warehouse, ETL Pipelines, Kafka, Kinesis, Pub Sub, Stream Processing, Batch Processing, Data Modeling, API Integration, Webhooks, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, CircleCi, Spinnaker, Monitoring, Alerting, Observability, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Logging, ELK, Cloudwatch, SnowSQL, Airflow, Snowpipe, Junit, Pytest, Jest, Contract Testing, Redis, A B Testing, Mocha, Cypress, Hacking, PHP, React Native, PHPUnit, SQL Server, Oracle, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, SOAP, MSTest, NUnit, .NET, DICOM, 3D Rendering, WPF | | LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/colton-karoses-70495367 | ## About ```text At Snowflake, I design distributed data services and ingestion pipelines for secure analytics and retail-style reporting, improving deployment success by 20% and reducing mean time to recovery by 15%. I've also built video APIs and dashboards at Mux, large-scale commerce experiences at Facebook, retail platforms at Target, and medical imaging software at Vital Images. I work end-to-end across backend services, data platforms, APIs, React applications, cloud infrastructure, testing, and observability. ``` ## Experience ### Senior Software Engineer (current) [Snowflake](https://himalayas.app/companies/snowflake). Apr 2024 - Present ```text Design and implement distributed data services for the Snowflake Data Cloud, enabling secure analytics and retail-style reporting workflows. Collaborate with product managers and enterprise customers to scope high-impact features, own service architecture, and lead code reviews and mentoring. ``` Skills: Java, Kotlin, Python, SQL, SnowSQL, Microservices, AWS, Azure, REST, gRPC, Kafka, Snowpipe, Airflow, Terraform, React, TypeScript, Junit, Pytest, Jest, GitHub-Actions, Jenkins, Datadog, Grafana ### Senior Software Engineer [Mux](https://himalayas.app/companies/mux). Sep 2021 - Apr 2024 ```text Built and evolved Mux's video streaming APIs and dashboards for media and retail customers, implementing backend services in Node.js and Go. Developed backoffice and analytics features, owned end-to-end design, and improved reliability and scalability of encoding and delivery pipelines. ``` Skills: NodeJS, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, REST, Webhooks, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Jest, Mocha, Junit, Cypress, CircleCi, GitHub-Actions ### Software Engineer Facebook. Oct 2017 - Sep 2021 ```text Implemented large-scale backend services for social and commerce experiences at Facebook, using Hack/PHP, Java, and C++. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ship user-facing features end-to-end and optimized performance and reliability of distributed systems. ``` Skills: Hack-(Meta-PHP), Java, C++, MySQL, TAO, Memcache, React, React-Native, GraphQL, REST, Jest, PHPUnit, A-B-Testing, Observability ### Software Engineer [Target](https://himalayas.app/companies/target). Mar 2016 - Sep 2017 ```text Developed services and tools supporting Target's retail and e-commerce platforms, implementing Java and C# APIs for inventory, pricing, and order workflows. Built internal and customer-facing web applications and improved reliability with automated testing and CI/CD. ``` Skills: Java, C#, ASP.NET-MVC, JavaScript, jQuery, REST, SOAP, SQL-Server, Oracle, MSTest, NUnit, Junit, Jenkins ### Software Engineer Vital Images. May 2012 - Aug 2015 ```text Implemented features for medical imaging and visualization software at Vital Images, using C++, C#, and .NET to handle DICOM data, 3D rendering, and clinical workflows. Developed desktop and web components and improved code quality and stability. ``` Skills: C++, C#, .NET, DICOM, 3D-Rendering, SQL-Server, WPF, ASP.NET, Unit-Testing, Code-Review ## Education ### University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science. 2010 - 2014 ```text Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities from 2010 to 2014. ``` ## Tech stack - Snowflake - Kubernetes - Helm - Jenkins - CircleCI - GitHub Actions - GitLab CI - React Native - MySQL - PostgreSQL - Oracle - Node.js - .NET - Redis - Terraform - Babel - Storybook - Jest - Cypress - Mocha - React - jQuery - Webpack - JavaScript - Python - HTML5 - Java - PHP - C# - Kotlin - Go - C++ - Hack - ELK - Kafka - Grafana - Prometheus - New Relic - Datadog - GraphQL - gRPC - Redux - TypeScript - pytest - JUnit - PHPUnit - Docker - Airflow - SQL - Spinnaker - ASP.NET MVC To contact Colton, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Luke Parker](https://himalayas.app/@lukeparker426): Senior Software Engineer, Walmart Health - [Tello User](https://himalayas.app/@tellouser1): Staff Software Engineer, Salesforce - [Ayox Media](https://himalayas.app/@ayoxmedia): Senior Software Engineer, Philips Healthcare - [Thomas Lee](https://himalayas.app/@thomaslee7): Staff Software Engineer, CVS Health - [Michael Pham](https://himalayas.app/@michaelpham1): Senior Software Engineer, Google - [William Elliott](https://himalayas.app/@williamelliott2): Staff Software Engineer, Snowflake - [Thomas Matthew Maxwell](https://himalayas.app/@thomasmatthewmaxwell): Senior Software Engineer, Amazon - [Thomas Maxwell](https://himalayas.app/@thomasmaxwell): Senior SDE, Amazon - [Thomas Maxwell](https://himalayas.app/@thomasmaxwell1): Senior SDE, Amazon - [thomas mat](https://himalayas.app/@thomasmat): Senior SDE, Amazon