Cory Lee is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer in Boston with 11 years building resilient, cloud-native platforms and leading SRE teams at scale. He blends hands-on DevOps and software engineering—AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Python, and C#—with operational leadership, having coordinated multi-team migrations, standardized SLO/SLI practices, and runbooks for large-scale decommissions. At edX he drove containerization, EKS deployments, and zero-downtime migrations while contributing backend fixes and deployment tooling to the widely used Open edX platform. At Indeed he standardized operational dashboards, supported thousands of services in a global follow-the-sun on-call model, and helped design multi-datacenter edge deployments to minimize latency. He’s comfortable moving between code, infrastructure, and process, and has a track record of turning manual operational pain points into automated, repeatable systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Texas State University
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:34 reviews, 147 commits, 269 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration management within the repository. Their contributions include creating and modifying scripts for managing the deployment of the application using Ansible, building Docker images, and configuring Nginx. They also worked on integrating with external services like Pingdom and Splunk and ensuring the application's proper operation within the environment. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the codebase related to AWS services and various deployments.
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:5 reviews, 56 commits, 68 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to backend development within the edx-platform repository. Their commits involve modifying Python code, specifically within Django-based environments (LMS/CMS), to address deprecation warnings and add new configurations. They refactored and updated Celery task queues, modifying task priority and routing, and adjusted settings for AWS deployments, indicating a focus on platform maintainability and performance optimization. These changes suggest a role in refining the platform's infrastructure and task management.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
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