Cody Cutrer
Eagle Mountain, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolCody Cutrer is a Principal Software Engineer and architect with 17 years building high-performance distributed systems, currently focused on scalability and reliability at Lumio and Instructure. He has deep hands-on experience across backend, database, and DevOps concerns—designing sharding libraries, optimizing PostgreSQL workloads, and running large-scale production operations for Canvas. Cody is an active open-source contributor to notable projects like Rails, pgbouncer and openHAB, where he’s fixed core threading, connection-pooling, and HomeKit integration issues that improve stability for many users. He combines low-level systems work (authoring a high-performance I/O library at Mozy) with pragmatic Ruby/Rails engineering and mentoring, bridging startup agility and enterprise reliability. Based in Eagle Mountain, Utah, he brings a knack for turning complex distributed problems into maintainable, scalable solutions and for shepherding upgrades and operational practices across teams.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Neumont University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (55)
connection-pooling10
ruby-rails10
maintenance10
postgresql10
package-management10
back-end-development10
redis10
rubygems10
testing10
plugin-development10
mqtt10
homekit10
openhab10
internet-of-things10
rails10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Apr 2011 - Nov 2021
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 5695 commits, 15 PRs in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Cody's commits focused on dependency upgrades and code refactoring within the Canvas LMS codebase. They updated the `factory_bot` library and added `colorize` to the rubocop gem file, indicating work related to testing and code quality tools. The user also addressed safe navigation and constant issues, as well as updating multiple gem dependencies, suggesting involvement in back-end development and maintenance tasks.
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redis-store/redis-store
Feb 2015 - Jan 2018
Namespaced Rack::Session, Rack::Cache, I18n and cache Redis stores for Ruby web frameworks
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Cody primarily contributed to the `redis-store/redis-store` repository by addressing bugs and enhancing functionality related to Redis store implementations. Their work included resolving setex marshalling issues within a distributed store, optimizing the handling of `FLUSHDB` operations when using namespaces, and adding support for Unix paths. Furthermore, the user improved the project by adding tests for namespace flushing, and configuring the ring for a DistributedStore.
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