Summary
Cory Christopher is a cloud architecture and networking leader with a decade of hands-on experience designing cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes-based PaaS, and scalable networking for financial services. Currently Director of Cloud Architecture and Networking at Mastercard, he leads infrastructure platform and distributed systems teams delivering resilient, developer-friendly open banking services. His background spans implementing GitOps for multi-region expansion, integrating enterprise datacenters during acquisitions, and open-sourcing internal PaaS tooling to streamline CI/CD. Based in Salt Lake City, he blends pragmatic engineering with compliance and InfoSec collaboration to balance agility and reliability, and is known for turning complex migration and connectivity challenges into repeatable platform standards.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Diploma, Honors Diploma at Columbiana High School
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering Minor in Computer Science at Miami University