Cody Soyland
Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarCody Soyland is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building backend systems, developer tools, and security-focused infrastructure, now based in Atlanta. He has held senior engineering and leadership roles across companies from startups to GitHub and Chainguard, blending hands-on development with operational and DevOps expertise. Cody is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like GitHub’s cli, pip, and sigstore/cosign, where he has worked on attestation, code signing, and compatibility improvements. He brings practical experience implementing HTTP services, Docker integrations, and tooling enhancements that improve testability and maintainability. Known for refactoring for clarity and decoupling security primitives (e.g., PayloadProvider, AWS KMS support), he delivers pragmatic improvements that reduce technical debt. Colleagues rely on him to bridge security, reliability, and developer experience in complex distributed systems.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (52)
github-cli10
json10
api-rest10
docker10
code-signing10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
testing10
packaging10
http10
xml-serialization10
dockers10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
FeatureBaseDB/featurebase
Oct 2013 - Mar 2021
A crazy fast analytical database, built on bitmaps. Perfect for ML applications. Learn more at: http://docs.featurebase.com/. Start a Docker instance: https://hub.docker.com/r/featurebasedb/featurebase
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 releases, 2 reviews, 972 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Cody contributed to implementing basic HTTP support by adding a service.go file that handled message passing and JSON encoding. They also made changes to command files like cruncher.go and router.go, adding HTTP functionality and location configurations. Furthermore, they added a prototype nexter for managing IDs and added Docker build scripts.
pythonperfectml-applicationsfiredata-science
django-tastypie/django-tastypie
Mar 2010 - Sep 2010
Creating delicious APIs for Django apps since 2010.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Cody primarily focused on improving the API's functionality. They converted a method within the ModelRepresentation class to a class method and implemented JSONP serialization along with serializer options. Additionally, the user added XML serialization support, including the necessary declarations and type strings for XML output. The user also refactored code for pagination and added more HTTP end-to-end tests.
django-appsapipythondjango-rest-frameworkdjango
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