Cory O'daniel
CEO & Co-Founder at Massdriver
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolCory O'daniel is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 17 years building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and high-scale web systems, currently serving as CEO and co-founder of Massdriver and co-founder of OpenTofu. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Elixir, Kubernetes, IaC and DevOps with product leadership—previously shaping observability tooling and Kustomize-based deployments for prometheus-operator and kube-prometheus. Cory’s background spans startups to enterprise migrations (GCP/GKE) and high-traffic consumer platforms, demonstrating an ability to move from first-line code to platform strategy. An active open-source contributor, he helped improve the frontend of the widely noticed OpenTF manifesto site and streamlined Kubernetes build/deploy workflows. Based in Pasadena, he pairs pragmatic technical rigor with entrepreneurial grit—and, notably, is a dedicated taco aficionado who keeps Fridays intentionally low-key.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMasters Business Information Systems, Masters Business Information Systems at University of South Florida
Stackoverflow
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37kreached
9answers
1question
terraform
top-5%
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
docker10
css10
kustomize10
dockers10
cicd10
prometheus10
jsonnet10
kubernetes-pods10
html10
monitoring9
site-design9
terraform9
ui-design9
website-design9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
opentofu/manifesto
Aug 2023 - Sep 2023
The OpenTF Manifesto expresses concern over HashiCorp's switch of the Terraform license from open-source to the Business Source License (BSL) and calls for the tool's return to a truly open-source license.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 26 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to the front-end development of the OpenTF manifesto website. Their work involved implementing social sharing buttons, adding styling, moving CSS to an external file, adding content descriptions, and general styling refinements. The user's contributions enhanced the user interface, improving social sharing capabilities and overall presentation of the content.
prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Kubernetes Specialist
DevOps Engineer & Kubernetes SpecialistContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 13 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Cory contributed to enhancing the Kubernetes deployment configuration within the prometheus-operator project. They added support for Kustomize, enabling users to install the prometheus-operator and kube-prometheus more easily. They refactored the build process, moving and modifying kustomization files, and updated the build process to utilize Docker.
clustersoperatorprometheus-operatorkubernetesatop
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