Cody Pope, Developer in Augusta, GA, United States
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Cody Pope

Full-stack Engineer and Developer

Augusta, GA, United States

Toptal member since January 9, 2026

Expertise
System SecurityJavaJavaScriptReact.jsKubernetesAWSDockerTypeScriptAWS LambdaTailwind CSSNext.jsNode.jsRustMacOS
Bio

Cody is a full-stack generalist with 12 years of experience in software engineering. His expertise focuses on deep security in Java, TypeScript, Rust, and React/Next.js, noting that the costliest code is code that breaks or is breached. He also specializes in staff augmentation and technical audits and requires no hand-holding. While most senior developers ship features, Cody ships resilient systems and protects clients' data.

Portfolio

Token
TypeScript, Java, Quarkus, GraalVM, JavaScript, Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda...
Amazon.com
Rust, Java, AWS IoT, TypeScript, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines...
Red Hat
Java, Quarkus, GraalVM, Vert.x, Camel, JavaScript, React, Node.js, OpenShift...

Experience

  • Computer Engineering - 12 years
  • Java - 12 years
  • JavaScript - 9 years
  • React - 9 years
  • Kubernetes - 7 years
  • TypeScript - 5 years
  • AWS IoT - 5 years
  • Rust - 2 years

Preferred Environment

MacOS, AWS IoT, TypeScript, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Claude

The most amazing...

...thing I've done is modernize and migrate 400+ web applications from WebSphere to Red Hat OpenShift (Kubernetes) within six months.

Work Experience

Senior Full-stack Software Engineer

2023 - 2024
Token
  • Led the cloud team in developing customer-facing web apps, internal tools, and telemetry services.
  • Developed and managed the company's cloud infrastructure in AWS with Terraform and the AWS Cloud Development Kit.
  • Mentored junior engineers to promote best practices, continuous improvement, and innovative system design.
Technologies: TypeScript, Java, Quarkus, GraalVM, JavaScript, Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Amazon EC2, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon RDS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS IAM, AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), GitHub Actions, Terraform, Terraform Cloud, Pulumi, Helm, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, CockroachDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Timestream, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Prometheus, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Rust, Qt 4, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Serverless Framework, Next.js, Docker, Server-side Rendering (SSR), Amazon Cognito, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), OAuth

Software Development Engineer

2022 - 2023
Amazon.com
  • Contributed to the development and testing of a critical zero-trust network security mechanism to support large distributed systems.
  • Implemented benchmarks and optimized the performance of the Rust networking client in fleets of over 400,000 nodes.
  • Applied Rust best practices for performance, maintainability, and observability.
Technologies: Rust, Java, AWS IoT, TypeScript, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), OAuth

Senior Application Development Consultant

2018 - 2022
Red Hat
  • Collaborated with clients to address business challenges using open source solutions and supported technologies from Red Hat.
  • Designed and implemented applications on the OpenShift Kubernetes platform.
  • Managed Jenkins on OpenShift, including the creation of shared libraries for Jenkins pipelines.
  • Created and deployed microservices using Vert.x and Quarkus on OpenShift.
  • Used Red Hat Process Automation Manager, Decision Manager, and Drools for developing rules and process flows.
Technologies: Java, Quarkus, GraalVM, Vert.x, Camel, JavaScript, React, Node.js, OpenShift, Ansible, Kubernetes, Tekton, Argo CD, Helm, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQL, Liquibase, MongoDB, Redis, Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, TypeScript, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), OAuth

Senior Software Engineer

2017 - 2018
LexisNexis
  • Developed new features across multiple releases for a production web application.
  • Identified and fixed critical customer-facing bugs.
  • Contributed to updating legacy code to meet current industry standards.
Technologies: Java, AngularJS, Spring Boot, Oracle, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), OAuth

Software Engineer

2016 - 2017
Mutual of Omaha
  • Developed RESTful web services for online payment processing.
  • Implemented the Spring Integration application to process flat files over SMB protocol and publish results to Excel spreadsheets.
  • Built transactional email and SMS notifications using the Iterable AI-powered communication platform.
Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, SQL, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), OAuth

Senior Application Developer

2014 - 2016
UNION PACIFIC
  • Developed and launched features for the critical NetControl Equipment business application using Java microservices and event-driven architecture.
  • Created and managed a versatile data model mapping tool.
  • Devised and executed tools to enhance data validation procedures.
Technologies: Java, Spring, React, JavaScript, PHP, Jenkins, Java Message Service (JMS), CI/CD Pipelines, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), OAuth

Experience

Llama Or Duck?!

"Llama Or Duck?!" was a basic iOS, Android, and BlackBerry 10 game that I developed in my spare time as an undergraduate. The objective was to determine whether a provided picture is a llama or a duck, within a very short timeframe. The game became very popular among high school students and accumulated over 1.2 million installs over its lifetime. Originally written using cocos2dx with C++, and later converted to Corona SDK with Lua.

Education

2009 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA, USA

Skills

Libraries/APIs

React, Node.js, Liquibase, Java Message Service (JMS)

Tools

Amazon EKS, Claude, Amazon Cognito, AWS Fargate, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS IAM, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Helm, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, Jenkins, Ansible, Tekton, ActiveMQ, Kibana, Splunk

Languages

TypeScript, Java, JavaScript, Rust, C++, Lua, Objective-C, PHP, SQL

Frameworks

Tailwind CSS, Next.js, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Spring, Spring Boot, AngularJS, Vert.x, Camel, Serverless Framework

Platforms

AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, MacOS, AWS IoT, Amazon EC2, iOS, Android, Oracle, OpenShift, Apache Kafka

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Datadog, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

Other

Computer Engineering, CI/CD Pipelines, Server-side Rendering (SSR), OAuth, Quarkus, GraalVM, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon RDS, AWS IAM Identity Center, GitHub Actions, Terraform Cloud, Pulumi, Amazon Timestream, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Qt 4, Argo CD

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