Cory Mcdonald
Senior Software Engineer at Unrivaled Basketball
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarCory Mcdonald is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area who blends hands-on full‑stack engineering with proven people leadership across consumer goods and creator-facing products. He led payments and subscription architecture at BARK—growing the payments team from 1 to 8, unifying subscription maintainability, and integrating Recurly, Braintree, and PayPal while codifying revenue-recognition processes. At Brave he scaled creator payments and anti-fraud systems to support over a million users and drove operational improvements like automated support workflows and centralized documentation. Known for mentoring engineers and managing remote teams across multiple time zones, he also champions developer productivity—having led organization-wide adoption of GitHub Copilot—to keep teams shipping reliable, maintainable systems.
5 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
annotate8
routes8
ruby7
rails7
activerecord6
ruby-on-rails5
recurly5
api4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cory-bark/advent
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
cory-bark/cory-bark
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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