Cory Darby
Director Of Engineering at BlueCat
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCory 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.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Carleton University
Stackoverflow
66reputation
6kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (6)
debug10
php10
php-framework10
codeigniter10
code-coverage6
phpunit6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
Jun 2012 - Jun 2013
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to fixing bugs and integrating changes to the CodeIgniter framework. They addressed an issue in the Table Library by fixing an extra `<td>` tag and incorporated updates related to the changelog. The user also merged branches and updated the Email library by fixing bugs. The contributions indicate a focus on improving the framework's core functionality and ensuring its stability.
phpframeworkphp-frameworkphp7php8
ckdarby/PHP-UptimeRobot
Oct 2013 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 5 months
api-clientapiapi-wrapperphpphp-wrapper
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