Cory Parrish
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolCory Parrish is a Principal Software Engineer and hands-on technology leader with 12 years of professional experience and 15 years in engineering roles, known for architecting and operating AWS-native, serverless platforms that scaled a fintech from under $1M to $20M+ ARR. He blends deep full-stack expertise (Node, Java, React, Python) with infrastructure and SRE practices—owning terraform-driven IaaS, CICD/DORA improvements, observability, and cost optimizations that cut AWS spend by 36%. As a people-first manager and coach, Cory has grown engineering organizations from a handful to 50+ across remote and hybrid teams while maintaining an unusually low 5% attrition through inclusive, permission-based leadership. He repeatedly turns ambiguity into measurable outcomes: building production systems, reusable terraform modules, and observability tools that improved debugging and deployment velocity by an order of magnitude. Cory also contributes open-source tooling for Node.js observability and BDD testing, reflecting his habit of shipping platform-level developer ergonomics. Based in Florida, he combines startup CTO experience with enterprise-grade reliability discipline to deliver customer-focused, highly automatable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree Music Education; Music Ed, Associates Degree Music Education; Music Ed at Blackhawk Community CollegeHigh School Diploma Diploma, High School Diploma Diploma at JD Darnall High SchoolMBA Project Management, MBA Project Management at Stevens Institute of TechnologyBachelors Degree Computer Science, Bachelors Degree Computer Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Github Skills (108)
test-kitchen10
behavior-driven-development10
bdd9
params9
mysql-client9
testing9
faunadb9
factory9
debug9
unit-testing9
chai9
tdd9
nodejs9
test-automation8
mysqljs8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
corybill/preconditions
Jun 2014 - Nov 2021
Support for Guava like Precondition error checking in Node.js
Contributions:3 reviews, 61 commits, 6 PRs in 7 years 7 months
preconditionnode-jscheckingnodejsguava
corybill/errr
Mar 2016 - Apr 2022
Errr is an error factory providing the ability to concat stack traces and debug params. Great for great full stack traces from all layers of code, especially when using promise chains.
Contributions:76 commits, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
tracesstack-tracesparamsfactoryfull-stack
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