Cory Close
Senior Consultant - Platform Practice
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCory Close is a Senior Platform Engineer and consultant with 10 years of experience building and stabilizing cloud-native infrastructure and developer workflows from Madison, WI. He has led migrations to Kubernetes, architected private cloud platforms, and transformed manually configured systems into secure, documented IaC/CaC pipelines that cut deployment times to minutes and slashed incident rates. Comfortable bridging development and operations, Cory has a track record of mentoring teams, improving code review practices, and delivering self-service CI/CD that empowers developers. His background includes leading business application development and HA database automation, giving him a pragmatic perspective on reliability, observability, and stakeholder-driven delivery. Notably, he pairs hands-on platform engineering with a history of creating educational resources and proposals that accelerate adoption and reduce organizational friction.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS - Computer Science, Computer Science, BS - Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Norwegian, Japanese, Russian
Stackoverflow
496reputation
29kreached
10answers
3questions
Github Skills (58)
topology9
composer8
replication8
mysql-replication8
percona8
mysql-proxy7
mysql7
high-availability7
cdc7
rancher7
failover7
php7
docker7
package-manager6
phpstorm6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cclose/barkdetector-go
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Golang based executable for detecting barking dogs
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 10 months
golangexecutabledetecting
cclose/RSIAPI
Dec 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
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