Cole Brewer

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Senior Platform Engineer, Vista Analytics - service mesh · CI/CD · observability

Vista Analytics
Pittsburgh, PA · ET (UTC-5)
6+ years experience
UT Austin
English
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Overview

I've spent 6 years on platform engineering - first at Google, now at Vista Analytics. Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 640ms to 74ms. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 6. Before that: Netflix and Google.

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  • Second opinions on Bazel decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on service mesh
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  • Courses and coaching offers
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Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
service meshKubernetesBazelGoobservabilityCI/CDBackstage

Experience

  1. Senior Platform Engineer
    Oct 2023 - Present
    Vista Analytics · 3 yr · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 3.
    • Moved 74% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Platform Engineer
    Dec 2021 - Oct 2023
    Netflix · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 31 a week to 1.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 6.
  3. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
    Google · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Wrote the Bazel service that now handles 39 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 26% in two quarters.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from developer platform
2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling platform engineering.

Open-source Backstage toolkit
2023

A small library for platform engineering that 161 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. UT Austin
    BS, Mathematics
    2015 - 2019

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