Cole Arendt
Senior Solutions Engineer at Cloudflare
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Arendt is a Senior Solutions Engineer with nine years of experience building data-driven solutions and helping IT teams at large organizations streamline operations and reduce complexity. Currently at Cloudflare after leadership and engineering roles at Posit and Digital Rocket, he blends hands-on backend development, product-facing solution design, and technical leadership to bridge engineering and customer outcomes. His background in applied mathematics and data analytics informs work across databases and BI stacks—he has optimized reporting pipelines and implemented PostgreSQL-specific adaptations for date/time functions in the popular dbplyr project. Comfortable architecting infrastructure for demos, training, and experimentation, he also has experience directing sizable ad spend and managing dozens of web properties, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and commercial operational experience. Based in Raleigh with a large family, he pairs methodical problem solving with pragmatic prioritization to deliver measurable impact.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics Economics Religious Studies, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics Economics Religious Studies at Wingate UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.) Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (5)
sql10
r10
postgresql9
databases8
database8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
tidyverse/dbplyr
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
Database (DBI) backend for dplyr
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 3 PRs, 36 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Cole's contributions primarily focused on adding and modifying functions related to date and time manipulation within the `dbplyr` library. They implemented translations for various `lubridate` functions, including `as_date`, `as_datetime`, `year`, `month`, `day`, `hour`, and `minute`. Furthermore, the user made specific changes to adapt these functions to the PostgreSQL database backend, including the `wday` function. The user also addressed minor style and functional improvements to ensure correct function execution.
backenddatabasedplyrr
rstudio/dbtest
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Automates testing of vector expressions of SQL translations for dplyr
Contributions:338 commits, 26 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 months
dplyrsqltesting
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