Cody Cushing
Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Cushing is a seasoned software development manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, currently leading Aurora DSQL at Amazon Web Services after directing Lambda data plane routing and async event source teams. He combines deep hands-on backend expertise—from contributing to the Terraform OCI provider and OCI SDK improvements to implementing instance launch and subnet features—with proven people leadership across large, distributed engineering teams. Cody’s background spans startups to hyperscale cloud providers, delivering real-time platforms, storage and networking integrations, and developer-facing infrastructure. Based in Seattle, he pairs practical system design with a history of shipping production services and mentoring engineers in disciplined, test-driven development. An attention to low-level cloud primitives and developer ergonomics distinguishes his work, evidenced by impactful OSS contributions to a widely used Terraform provider.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Seattle UniversityCrawford Nautical
Stackoverflow
103reputation
12kreached
15answers
2questions
Github Skills (19)
oracle-cloud10
terraform10
terraformer10
iaas10
go10
oracle10
orchestration10
orchestra10
backend10
oracle-cloud-infrastructure10
api-design9
apim9
api9
adobe6
flash6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/terraform-provider-oci
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Terraform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 29 commits, 146 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Cody primarily focused on enhancing the Terraform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provider. Their work involved modifying the instance launch functionality by supporting nested `CreateVnicDetails` and associated parameter updates. They also implemented features like the `ipxeScript` and added functionality related to subnet creation, including optional route tables and security lists. Further, they added and updated relevant SDK methods for core and object storage.
bare-metalprovidercloud-infrastructureorchestrationinfrastructure-provider
skripted/terraform-provider-baremetal
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
bare-metalcloud-servicesmetalprovideroracle
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