Cory Nelson
Director Of Software Engineering at Steam Logistics
Redmond, Washington, United States
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RockstarCory Nelson is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-performance networking and backend systems, now serving as Director of Software Engineering at Steam Logistics. A former senior engineer on Microsoft's .NET System.Net team, he has hands-on expertise in HTTP, sockets, and protocol work, and contributed upstream fixes and HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support to the widely used dotnet/runtime project. He combines deep performance and networking instincts with product-minded leadership—having led teams, shipped large-scale consumer privacy and logistics systems, and co-founded a cloud-based physical access startup. Based in Redmond, Cory is a practical operator who still digs into core libraries and protocol edge cases while directing engineering strategy and delivery.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (36)
asynchronous10
multithreading10
net10
http10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
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winapi9
linq9
debug9
assembly9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/runtime
May 2019 - Apr 2021
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:145 reviews, 46 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Cory contributed to the .NET runtime project by fixing bugs and improving the functionality of core libraries. They addressed issues in the `HashSet` class, resolving capacity-related problems and accounting for the freelist during capacity growth. The user also reverted a change related to the `HttpListener` and provided support for proxy scripts in the `System.Net.Http` library. Finally, the user added support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocols, including dynamic table header decode and resolving related issues.
dotnetruntimelinuxcsharpxamarin
scalablecory/runtime-priv
Feb 2020 - Dec 2021
.NET is a cross-platform runtime and libraries, for cloud, IoT and desktop apps. It includes a garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and class libraries.
Contributions:28 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 10 months
runtimecompilerc-sharpdesktop-appsgarbage
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