Summary
Corey Donohoe is a seasoned software engineer with 24 years of experience building backend systems, DevOps tooling, and developer-facing infrastructure from New York. He has shipped production-critical tooling at Heroku and GitHub, focusing on APIs, release management, testing, and security while maintaining a pragmatic, maintenance-first approach. A prolific open-source contributor in the Ruby ecosystem, his work touches well-known projects like Hubot, Octokit, and Restforce where he improved integrations, caching, and CI workflows. He pairs deep systems experience (Solaris/Unix administration and automation) with hands-on web app and deployment expertise, having bootstrapped Rails apps and CI services early in his career. Known for improving test reliability and secure proxying of content, he prefers robust, well-tested solutions that scale with teams and codebases. Outside obvious production work, he repeatedly surfaces subtle stability fixes—like server lifecycle and dependency corrections—that reduce long-term operational toil.
24 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Memphis