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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER

Cole Boggus

Hi, I’m Cole. I build engineering teams and the
systems that help them do their best work.

Explore my experience

Dallas-Fort Worth / Building with purpose since 2020

✦ People-first leadership
⌘ Hands-on engineering
6+years building products
7engineers led at R&D
7-ElevenSoftware Engineering Manager2025–Present
AWS Certified
Solutions Architect · Associate

THE JOURNEY SO FAR

Experience that connects.

From the interface to the infrastructure.
experience / cole boggusCAREER HISTORY
7-ElevenCurrently

Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2025 — PresentDallas-Fort Worth

Architected a centralized MarTech integration platform connecting enterprise systems with external marketing vendors.

  • Architected a centralized MarTech integration platform using TypeScript services, Step Functions, Python scripts, and Databricks, replacing one-off point-to-point integrations with reusable APIs and shared data contracts to accelerate vendor onboarding.
  • Defined service boundaries, integration patterns, ownership models, security controls, LogRocket observability standards, and deployment conventions to support expanding vendor integrations and improve security compliance.
  • Drive technical decisions across application, platform, data, security, and architecture teams, translating ambiguous requirements into system designs and delivery plans using TypeScript and React.
  • Established engineering standards and review practices for reliability, operability, Playwright and Vitest testing, and maintainability, raising code quality and reducing production bugs.
  • Build technical capacity through hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring while staying involved in architecture and implementation.
TypeScriptStep FunctionsDatabricks
Craftable

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2025 — Jun 2025Remote

Modernized a legacy Ember.js application with Svelte 5 and TypeScript.

  • Migrated core workflows and reusable UI components from Ember.js to Svelte 5 and TypeScript while maintaining continuous product development and reducing technical debt.
  • Designed a feature-flag-driven migration architecture that let Ember and Svelte coexist, enabling incremental rollout, controlled testing, and rapid rollback without long-lived migration branches.
  • Collaborated across Svelte and Spring Boot to resolve API contract mismatches, authentication flow gaps, and state-management issues for stable backend behavior and smoother workflow migrations.
Svelte 5TypeScriptSpring Boot
Amazon

Front-End Engineer II

Dec 2023 — Feb 2025Dallas-Fort Worth

Owned design, development, and production support for Amazon Business account-management features.

  • Led end-to-end delivery of account-management features using React, TypeScript, Redux, Java, and Spring Boot, streamlining account setup and improving the customer experience.
  • Modernized shared frontend packages and legacy applications, including migration to React 18 and a new UI framework to reduce technical debt and simplify future feature development.
  • Drove cross-functional technical execution with product, design, and business stakeholders, turning customer pain points and experiment ideas into production changes and measurable product iterations.
  • Maintained production quality through automated Jest tests, code reviews, deployments, and on-call incident response, reducing production incidents and improving reliability.
ReactTypeScriptSpring Boot
Canopy Platform, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2023 — Nov 2023Remote

Owned architecture and implementation of a customer-facing platform using SvelteKit, TypeScript, and AWS.

  • Guided technical planning through production delivery, enabling an on-schedule platform launch and seamless user onboarding.
  • Built a server-rendered application optimized for SEO, accessibility, and fast initial page loads with SvelteKit and Jest, establishing reusable component patterns that reduced load times and improved search visibility.
  • Improved maintainability and delivery speed through stronger typing, reusable components, targeted performance work, code review, CI/CD ownership, and automated deployments.
  • Partnered directly with the CTO and product design to turn business priorities into technical tradeoffs, implementation plans, and shipped product experiences.
SvelteKitTypeScriptAWS
7-Eleven R&D

Senior Software Engineer — Tech Lead

Aug 2022 — Jun 2023Dallas-Fort Worth

Led a seven-engineer team building a frictionless checkout platform.

  • Defined architecture, broke down tasks, reviewed designs, and mentored engineers to accelerate feature delivery and improve code quality.
  • Architected and delivered self-checkout features with React Native, Node.js, NestJS, and AWS, enabling cashless transactions and increasing checkout availability.
  • Designed and operated ECS and Lambda workloads and supporting AWS services with a focus on fault tolerance, security, and performance, reducing outages and infrastructure spend.
  • Introduced New Relic and LogRocket observability, dashboards, alerting, and client-side telemetry to improve production diagnosis and incident response.
  • Established automated React Native pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and drove security remediation to shorten release cycles and ensure audit readiness.
React NativeNestJSAWS
7-Eleven R&D

Software Engineer II

Sep 2021 — Aug 2022Dallas-Fort Worth

Designed and delivered cloud-native retail applications across frontend, backend, and deployment infrastructure.

  • Built retail applications using Angular, Node.js, NestJS, and AWS, covering frontend UI, backend services, and deployment infrastructure.
  • Built APIs and services deployed on ECS and Lambda and reusable functionality in an Nx monorepo, streamlining code sharing and reducing integration time for new features.
  • Improved release confidence and development speed with Jest and Cypress tests, automated cloud deployments, and evaluation of new tools and architecture patterns.
AngularNestJSAWS
Glorious

Software Engineer

Aug 2020 — Sep 2021Remote

Built commerce experiences that increased conversion rates by 30%.

  • Led frontend development of the Shopify storefront with React, Shopify Liquid, JavaScript, and Bootstrap, delivering a more responsive and reliable shopping experience.
  • Built product pages and data-driven storefront improvements that increased conversion rates by 30%.
  • Developed reusable React components, Node.js tooling, and backend integrations that improved site performance, internal workflows, and launch velocity.
  • Strengthened engineering quality through Cypress testing, code review, CI/CD improvements, and modernization of legacy storefront code.
ReactNode.jsShopify
Southwest Airlines

Software Engineer

Feb 2020 — Apr 2020Dallas-Fort Worth

Engineered reusable, data-driven UI components with Angular 8 and Angular Material.

  • Built reusable UI components and ensured release quality through Jest testing, code reviews, and component documentation, reducing UI bugs and accelerating release cycles.
AngularAngular MaterialJest

A WELL-ROUNDED TOOLKIT

Big picture. Small details.

People & direction

Engineering managementHiring & team buildingMentorshipTechnical strategyRoadmap planningIncident managementIncident responseArchitecture reviews

Architecture & platforms

Enterprise integrationsAPI designEvent-driven systemsDistributed systemsMicroservicesServerlessSystem designApplication modernization

Languages & frameworks

TypeScriptJavaScriptJavaPythonSQLC#ReactReact NativeSvelteKitAngularNode.jsNestJSSpring BootReduxPrismaSvelteShopify Liquid

Cloud & delivery

AWSLambdaECSS3CloudFrontCDKCloudFormationTerraformDockerKubernetesRESTGraphQLJestCypressPlaywrightGitHub ActionsGitLab CICodeBuildNew RelicLogRocketVitestCI/CDAWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

A BIT ABOUT ME

Technical roots.
People at the center.

I’m a software engineering manager and hands-on technical leader with 6+ years of experience building customer-facing products, cloud platforms, and enterprise integrations.

My work spans retail, commerce, and MarTech: forming teams, setting technical direction, modernizing legacy applications, and delivering systems that work in production.

Texas A&M University

B.S. Computer Science · Minor in Business
2015–2019