Cody Ray
Director Of Engineering at Confluent
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolCody Ray is a Director of Engineering with 15 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native SaaS platforms, currently focused on service foundations and developer productivity at Confluent. He helped launch Confluent Cloud as part of the original tiger team and now leads cross-cloud orchestration, service-runtime frameworks, and initiatives that cut new app time-to-market by months. Technical breadth spans Kubernetes, Kafka, multi-cloud, Golang/Java/Python microservices, and resilient platform features like authN/authZ, feature flags, and rate limiting. Cody pairs hands-on infrastructure automation (programmatic infra lifecycle) with product-minded UX-first and API-spec-first approaches to accelerate teams. He also contributed to open-source StackStorm integrations for MSSQL automation, reflecting a practical focus on operational tooling. His background in controls, robotics, and distributed agent research gives him a rare systems-theory perspective on reliability and security in production systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Electrical Engineering, M.S. Electrical Engineering at Drexel UniversityHigh School Focus in Computer Science and Engineering, High School Focus in Computer Science and Engineering at Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts
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Github Skills (35)
storm10
python10
databases10
sql10
mssql10
data-integration10
sql-database10
scripting9
ipad9
reflection9
ssl9
ios9
java9
csv-parser9
phpunit9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2contrib
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
MOVED! See StackStorm Exchange
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 25 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Cody primarily contributed to the `mssql` pack within the `st2contrib` repository, which seems to be related to integrating StackStorm with Microsoft SQL Server. Their work involved developing actions and a results processor, including writing code to write the results from SQL queries to CSV files for downstream processing. They also addressed issues such as proper handling of database connections, and updated the parameter order for actions.
nodejsexchangestackstorm
signal/agathon
May 2012 - Aug 2015
Automated Cassandra operations and management
Contributions:57 commits, 1 push, 6 comments in 3 years 2 months
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