Cory Finger
Staff Software Engineer at Crystal Knows
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCory Finger is a Staff Software Engineer and SRE based in Seattle with two decades of software experience and a 12-year track record in senior engineering and leadership roles. He thrives on building reliable, high-throughput distributed systems and fast, maintainable product backends using Golang, Elixir, TypeScript, Python and Rust, and is fluent across databases, streaming, and cloud-native tooling. Cory has architected multi-region, stateful GraphQL APIs for production AI features, led the creation of Hulu’s first SRE team and infrastructure visibility tooling, and built low-code execution engines and enterprise-scale media ingest pipelines. He focuses on durable long-running workflows (Temporal.io), resilient stream processing, and production-grade CLI and cross-platform native tooling—areas where he pairs deep systems thinking with product-facing practicality. Known for enabling teams through better developer workflows and observability, he blends hands-on coding with customer-facing engineering to accelerate growth and operational maturity. Outside core projects he experiments with realtime UX prototyping (Phoenix LiveView) and edge/SSR patterns, reflecting a continuous drive to merge developer productivity with exceptional user experience.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Northeastern University
English
Github Skills (80)
webstorm10
intellij-plugin10
rubymine10
elixir-mix10
appcode10
clion9
jetbrains9
gmail9
plugin9
pycharm9
gmail-api8
ruby8
ide8
chrome-extension8
google-docs8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
crystal-project-inc/ruby_sdk
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:52 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
apicrystalapi-connectrubysdk
crystal-project-inc/streaming_user_segmentation
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 month
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