Corey O'connor is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 19 years of experience building and evolving distributed systems, data platforms, and developer-facing tooling. He excels at incremental modernization—balancing removal of legacy components with rapid delivery of new capabilities—and has led high-impact teams at Amazon Lab126 and Protenus. A functional-programming and protocol-design specialist, he designs predictable business service APIs and event-sourced architectures (he co-develops the glngn server for event-sourced business processes). Corey brings hands-on GPU and rendering optimization experience from contributions to the open-source Kdenlive video editor, demonstrating both low-level performance tuning and full-stack thinking. He blends pragmatic engineering processes with platform-level thinking to raise cross-team productivity and system reliability. Based in Seattle and trained at Harvey Mudd, he pairs deep technical craft with a knack for turning complex requirements into auditable, production-ready solutions.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
Free and open source video editor, based on MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:12 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Corey primarily focused on enhancing the OpenGL-based rendering within the Kdenlive video editor. Their commits involved refactoring and partitioning the `glwidget` class, a critical component for the application's video display functionality. The changes included improvements to GPU acceleration management, synchronization, and optimization of the rendering pipeline to support various rendering modes. These efforts were aimed at improving the performance and efficiency of video playback and editing.
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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