Cory Hughes
Sr Manager, Product - Customer Identity at Avant
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCory Hughes is a product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building data-driven identity and analytics platforms, currently serving as Sr Manager, Product for Customer Identity at Avant. He combines hands-on development roots with strategic product leadership—centralizing identity data, delivering vendor evaluations that unlocked seven-figure benefits, and consolidating analytics vendors to realize multimillion-dollar savings. Cory has repeatedly shortened delivery cycles and reduced operating costs by designing reusable platform capabilities and automations that cut lead times from weeks to days and slashed contractor needs. Comfortable moving between technical execution and customer-facing roles, he emphasizes communication as the core of product work to ensure customer and sales voices drive decision-making. Based in Providence, RI, he brings a rare blend of ML/analytics product experience, platform thinking, and pragmatic delivery focus informed by early career engineering and automation work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Audio Engineering Technology, BS Computer Science Audio Engineering Technology at Belmont University
Github Skills (26)
deployment-automation8
tosca7
hortonworks7
openjdk6
aws6
python6
gcp6
continuous-deployment6
devops5
azure5
iaas5
infrastructure5
terraform5
java5
kubernetes4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stackdio/stackdio-python-client
Sep 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:39 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
api-clientapipythonpython-clientcanonical
WLPhoenix/oh-my-zsh
Aug 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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