Corey Oordt
Senior Data Platform Engineer
Farmington, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorey Oordt is a Senior Data Platform Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and leading cross-functional teams. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy platforms and driving measurable business impact—examples include a stream-processing framework that increased profit and handled 20% of regional volume and an ETL migration that improved throughput by 75%. At C.H. Robinson he championed MLOps, GitOps, and automated deployments that cut time-to-production from 20+ minutes to 2 minutes, and he’s known for mentoring engineers and fostering collaborative, improvement-focused teams. His background spans startups, media, and public-sector roles where he frequently reduced costs and deployment errors by moving systems to cloud-native and containerized architectures. Corey also contributes to open source (notably maintenance and compatibility work on django-categories), reflecting a pragmatic, backend-focused engineering style. Based in Farmington, Minnesota, he combines hands-on coding with architecture and operational leadership to turn complex requirements into reliable, auditable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Graphic Design at Drake University
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Github Skills (7)
debug10
python10
django10
mptt9
database-design8
database-connection6
documentation6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-categories
Sep 2011 - Sep 2022
This app attempts to provide a generic category system that multiple apps could use. It uses MPTT for the tree storage and provides a custom admin for better visualization (copied and modified from feinCMS).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 214 commits, 12 PRs in 11 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Corey primarily addressed bug fixes related to the `__getitem__` override in the `editor/tree_editor.py` file and a version bump in the `categories/__init__.py` file. Additionally, the user updated documentation and added changes to support compatibility with Django 1.1. Furthermore, they altered the database schema. The user removed actions related to deleting categories and deactivated/activated items in the admin.
admincategorygenericmodifiedmptt
callowayproject/django-uploader
May 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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