Summary
Cory Darby is a Director of Engineering with 14 years of software experience building and scaling high-traffic web platforms, including work on systems that rank among the world’s top bandwidth consumers. He has led teams from startup to enterprise scale—founding a company, growing teams at MindGeek to handle billions of events and PCI-DSS level 1 transaction volume, and driving product and operational improvements at BlueCat that materially boosted EBITDA. Cory combines hands-on backend development (contributing bug fixes to the popular CodeIgniter PHP framework) with strategic leadership, launching new data platforms and security product lines. He excels at turning firefighting cultures into predictable delivery engines and aligning engineering efforts to generate seven-figure revenue outcomes. Based in Canada, he pairs pragmatic technical depth with a proven ability to recruit, structure, and elevate multi-layered engineering organizations. A builder at heart, he still contributes to open-source projects while focusing on infrastructure and data initiatives that move the business forward.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Carleton University