Cody Fincher
Staff Technical Solutions Consultant at Google
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCody Fincher is a Staff Technical Solutions Consultant at Google with nine years of professional experience and a deep background in systems, infrastructure, and solutions architecture. He progressed from database development and system architecture in healthcare to senior infrastructure roles at Accenture Enkitec Group and Gluent, and now advises on complex technical solutions at scale. Cody contributes to open-source backend tooling—adding Brotli/Gzip compression, enhanced auth middleware, and serializer improvements to the Litestar ASGI framework—demonstrating practical, production-focused engineering. Based in Dallas, he combines an MS in Information Systems with hands-on cloud and middleware expertise to bridge technical design and operational reliability. Notably, his contributions often target subtle but impactful areas like logging integration and URL-based auth exclusions that improve observability and developer ergonomics.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Information Systems, MS, Information Systems at Auburn University
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Github Skills (12)
web-framework10
middleware10
api10
asgi10
python10
apidoc10
openapi9
user-authentication9
logging9
gzip9
authentication9
brotli9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
litestar-org/litestar
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Production-ready, Light, Flexible and Extensible ASGI API framework | Effortlessly Build Performant APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 560 reviews, 18 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Cody primarily contributed to the Litestar framework by implementing features and enhancing existing components. They added compression middleware, focusing on Brotli with a Gzip fallback, and integrated picologging support. The user also made improvements to the authentication middleware by adding URL exclusions and fixing error handling. Furthermore, the user modified the built-in serializer to support additional data types.
api-clientapiasgipythonredoc
cofin/litestar-granian
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Granian plugin for Litestar
Contributions:29 releases, 2 reviews, 55 PRs in 1 year 6 months
asgiasgi-servergranianlitestarlitestar-api
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