SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER & ENGINEERING LEAD

I lead engineering at Endgame and build across the whole stack.

Endgame is a real-time chess platform on web, iOS and Android. I run its engineering team, own the mobile app from architecture to store release, and ship across Flutter, TypeScript, and C# and Python services on AWS.

GitHub LinkedIn Cedar Park, Texas, USA · remote
Portrait of Emmalie Cole
Engineering lead
Leading a distributed team
iOS + Android
Endgame AI, live in both stores
Full stack
Flutter · TypeScript · C# · Python
AWS + GCP
Event-driven services, real-time APIs

Selected work

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ENDGAME · LIVE ON IOS, ANDROID AND ENDGAME.AI

Endgame AI mobile app

Rated games, AI opponents, puzzle runs and full engine analysis, built in Flutter from one codebase. I lead the app end to end: architecture, real-time gameplay, sign-in, and the release pipeline to both stores.

Game analysis in the Endgame AI app, with engine lines and the best move drawn on the board
The knead.it landing page: Cook curiously.
FOUNDER · ALPHA COMING SOON

knead.it

A cooking project I'm building in my own time: save the recipes you find, keep the ones handed down to you, and learn to make them by hand. One Next.js and Capacitor codebase for web, iOS and Android.

ENDGAME · BUILT SOLO

Operations dashboard

The internal view the company runs on: engineering health, product analytics and per-person pages, with anomaly alerts and sprint boards mirrored from Jira. Used daily across the company and shared with our investors.

Next.js 14 · Cloud Run · BigQuery · Firestore
PERSONAL PROJECT · IN DEVELOPMENT

Sage

Strategic Adaptive Guidance Engine: a self-hosted personal AI assistant built around my working day. Morning and evening briefings set the plan, one focus board shows what needs me, and code reviews arrive prepared by two different AI models and checked against the code. Every job has to earn its place: if I don't act on what it produces, it gets cut.

Python · Claude API · Docker · PostgreSQL · Tailscale

Fancy a game?

I spend my days building chess software, so here's a small board. Play white against a little bot, or watch Paul Morphy's 1858 Opera Game, one of the most famous short games ever played.

Your move You play white · tap a piece to move it

Experience

2026 – now
Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Lead · Endgame AI
Lead a distributed engineering team and the mobile app; real-time broadcasting, event-driven services, internal tooling and growth-team measurement across a 40+ service platform.
2025 – now
Founder · knead.it
A cooking project in development, built in my own time.
2025
Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern · SmallChess
Chess training features in React, TypeScript and Supabase, including a Stockfish-based analysis engine.
2022 – 2025
Writer and Editor · Freelance
Editing and technical documentation across legal, medical, financial and optics subjects.

Let's talk.

Open to senior engineering and engineering lead roles, remote.