Andrew Cornies
Principal Engineer at Stealth Startup
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Cornies is a Staff Engineer with over a decade building scalable web and systems software across Toronto, San Francisco and Tokyo, now focused on WWFO engineering at HashiCorp. He blends front-end UX, back-end performance tuning, distributed systems and platform engineering—leading teams that delivered multi-region PaaS, Vault/Consul/Nomad enterprise clusters, and production container infrastructure. A hands-on engineer who moved from full‑stack development and game dev into SRE and platform leadership, he has driven large migrations (100m+ objects) and built CI/CD and object storage solutions in production. He contributes to open-source tooling such as HashiCorp Packer (notably enhancing the salt-masterless provisioner) and speaks publicly about platform and cloud-native ops. Based in Canada, he pairs deep technical breadth with practical delivery and a knack for making complex systems operable and sustainable.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia Design and Production Web Development, Multimedia Design and Production Web Development at Fanshawe College
Github Skills (6)
packer10
go10
testing9
git6
github-ci6
githubaction-workflow6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `salt-masterless` provisioner within the Packer project. Their work involved adding functionality to download Salt formulas using `go-getter` and incorporating URL format error checking. The user also wrote tests around formula URLs and updated the implementation to `go-getter/v2`. They updated the go.mod file to reflect these changes.
packer
tucows/vault-formula
Nov 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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