Cole Bessee
Senior Software Engineer at Locana
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Bessee is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 12 years of full-stack experience building web applications that blend geospatial insight with practical user-focused design. He ships front-end interfaces in Angular and React and backs them with Node/Express, Python, Postgres/Mongo, and PHP/WordPress systems—often adding cartographic features that turn location data into compelling narratives. His background in GIS and cartography informs a specialty in geospatial functionality, from custom visualizations with D3 to integrated mapping services for research and government clients. Comfortable working solo or as part of cross-disciplinary teams, he frequently partners with clients to define scope, run sprints, and deliver well-documented, maintainable solutions. Colleagues value his knack for solving non-obvious problems and his ongoing curiosity to learn new tools and approaches.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Geographic Information Systems and Cartography, Bachelor’s Degree, Geographic Information Systems and Cartography at University of Washington
English
Github Skills (16)
react7
summarize7
plug6
atlas6
rise5
servicenow5
wordpress5
gis4
openstreetmap4
sass4
git4
wordpress-plugin4
foundation4
firebase2
javascript2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spatialdev/react-chbp
Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
Capitol Hill Block Party interactive map
Contributions:2 reviews, 20 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years
maphillinteractive-mapparty
abztrakt/WP-UWConnect
Dec 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:120 commits, 9 PRs, 63 pushes in 4 months
servicenowwordpressplug-inplugwordpress-plugin
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