Summary
Coranna Howard is a release and deployment engineer with 17 years of experience designing reliable packaging and deployment pipelines for Windows fleets and cloud infrastructure. She led release engineering at Fastly, progressing from Release Engineer to Senior Release Engineer, and earlier architected a software packaging methodology that produced and maintained 675+ packages for an 850-seat Windows environment. Comfortable writing tooling in multiple languages (C#, C++, VB6/.NET, JScript/WSH, BlitzMax, and shell), she blends systems-level automation with pragmatic documentation and knowledge transfer. Her background includes hands-on hardware rollouts and bespoke tracking tools that streamlined large-scale OS and terminal deployments. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she favors practical, auditable solutions that scale and trains teams to sustain them. Coranna’s career shows a steady focus on turning operational complexity into repeatable, well-documented release processes.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese