Cory Mcilroy
Software Engineer at Neynar
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCory Mcilroy is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and manager with 11 years of professional experience, now based in Missouri and currently building at Neynar after a six-year engineering leadership tenure at Adobe. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—evidenced by notable contributions to Adobe Photoshop’s generator-core Node.js library, where he improved websocket domain handling, security scanning, and image/PDF processing—with experience shipping web-facing Photoshop features. Cory has a strong track record of guiding teams and projects from startup co-founding through enterprise-scale product delivery, blending pragmatic engineering with operational rigor. Known for improving build pipelines and hardening dependencies, he brings a practical eye for reliability and security that often shows up behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Truman State University
Github Skills (9)
nodejs10
javascript10
gruntjs9
g9
websocket9
sem8
logging8
cicd8
image-processing7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adobe-photoshop/generator-core
Mar 2015 - Mar 2019
Core Node.js library for Adobe Photoshop CC's Generator extensibility layer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:107 commits, 44 PRs, 78 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to the core Node.js library of Adobe Photoshop's Generator, enhancing its websocket server functionality by enabling domain registration and event emission for client notifications. They also improved the build and security aspects of the project by upgrading dependencies, adding a vulnerability scanner, and adjusting logging configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented code changes related to PDF conversion, image processing, and handling of Photoshop version strings.
node-coreadobejs-libraryextendscriptnode-js
adobe-photoshop/generator-spaces
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 8 months
generator-pluginphotoshopdesign-spaceplugin
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