Summary
Cory O'brien is a Lead Software Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building front-end systems and product-focused UIs for news media, publishing, and consumer platforms. He excels at partnering with product and design to unblock teams, mentor engineers, and architect scalable editor and asset-management experiences used by millions. His background includes leading video and data-visualization initiatives at The Washington Post and U.S. News, launching core features and frameworks at Squarespace, and founding the engineering effort behind a B2B CRM that onboarded cultural institutions. Now consulting on audio and real-time apps while leading engineering at Reuters, he blends newsroom product sensibilities with pragmatic system design. Colleagues rely on him not just for code, but for creating patterns and testing strategies that let multiple teams ship complex features in parallel.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer