Corey Quinn
Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill with 15 years of experience helping companies shrink and demystify their AWS bills while blending technical rigor with a sharp sense of humor. He hosts the popular Screaming in the Cloud and AWS Morning Brief podcasts and curates the influential Last Week in AWS newsletter, known for its snarky, pragmatic take on cloud news. His background spans senior ops and DevOps leadership roles—from Director-level positions at FutureAdvisor and Expensify to hands-on consulting—giving him deep operational credibility in regulated and high-scale environments. An active contributor to open-source projects like legacy Homebrew, he pairs practical maintenance work (updating formulas and improving mirrors) with big-picture cost strategy. Based in San Francisco, Corey uniquely mixes financial modeling, cost allocation expertise, and public-facing commentary to turn horrifying cloud bills into manageable business results.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Scarborough Middle School
Github Skills (9)
homebrew10
formula10
package-management10
formulas10
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
git7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Mar 2013 - Aug 2015
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Corey primarily contributed to the Homebrew project by updating and maintaining formulas, which involves defining software installation instructions. Their work includes updating the URLs, checksums, and version numbers for various software packages. They also made a significant contribution by updating the `zsh` formula to use a faster mirror for downloads. The user's actions were essential to ensure Homebrew users had access to the latest software and reliable installations.
macoshomebrew
QuinnyPig/pinboard-backup
May 2018 - Dec 2020
This backs up Pinboard bookmarks to DynamoDB.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
dynamodbbookmarkspinboardawspinboard-bookmarks
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