Corey Christous
Staff Software Engineer I at Confluent
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorey Christous is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building development and testing infrastructure across startups and large tech firms. Based in Cambridge, MA, he has progressed from hands-on test engineering at DEKA and DataXu to SDE and systems roles at Amazon and leadership engineering at Confluent, showing a strong trajectory in reliability and automation. He is proficient in Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, Ansible, Docker, and AWS, and repeatedly focuses on efficiency and optimization to streamline CI/CD and production tooling. Known for blending DevOps and engineering leadership, he has led automation teams and driven platform improvements that reduce operational toil. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex systems into auditable, repeatable processes while mentoring others in best practices.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (196)
messaging10
controller10
python10
producer-consumer10
python-client10
automation10
pip10
confluent-platform10
ack10
cpp10
ssh10
network-configuration10
python-development10
blocking10
ansible10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dataxu/ansible
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Ansible is a radically simple IT orchestration engine that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.
Contributions:5 PRs, 23 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 3 months
orchestrationdevopsansibleplain-englishagents
confluentinc/python-github-backup
Feb 2024 - Jan 2025
backup a github user or organization
Contributions:6 reviews, 1 PR, 1 branch in 10 months
github-usertrending-repositoriesbackup
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