Cory Dolphin
Head Of Software Engineering at Nextdoor
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolCory Dolphin is a Head of Software Engineering based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building and leading platform and server-side teams at Nextdoor. He focuses on developer experience, cloud and core platform services, and has moved from hands-on engineering to scaling multiple engineering teams and systems. Cory has a strong background in high-throughput systems from roles at Twitter and Trove and early work on real-time analytics at Crashlytics, and he’s currently building a schemaless graph ORM and a globally available read-heavy datastore. An active open-source contributor, he refactored and modernized the widely used flask-cors library to improve compatibility, logging, and blueprint support. Known for blending pragmatic engineering with delightful developer tooling, he helps teams ship quickly and safely while keeping systems resilient at scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringThe Thacher SchoolBabson College
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
cors10
back-end-development10
python10
flask-ask10
flask10
apidoc9
api9
testing8
regular-expression7
heroku6
gunicorn6
numeric6
azure-storage6
foreman6
matplotlib6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
corydolphin/flask-cors
Mar 2015 - Jan 2021
Cross Origin Resource Sharing ( CORS ) support for Flask
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 releases, 9 reviews, 94 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily worked on refactoring the `flask-cors` library, starting with converting newline characters to a consistent format. They updated the default options and parameters to be backwards incompatible, and separated the extension and decorator into different modules sharing a core module. The user also addressed an issue with duplicate headers and improved the overall logging. Additionally, the user added support for blueprints.
cross-origincorspythoncors-supportflask
corydolphin/flask-jsonpify
Aug 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 releases, 4 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years
pythonjsonifyflaskjsonpflask-extension
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