Cory Schires
Founder, Developer at Scholastica
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCory Schires is a founder and lead developer with 16 years of experience building web applications primarily in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, currently focused full-time on Scholastica. He blends hands-on engineering—back-end features, counter-cache work and test-driven enhancements to open-source Rails plugins—with product-minded leadership from his startup role. Based in Chicago, Cory’s background spans UX-aware front-end work, Agile practices, and operations experience from earlier non-profit management. He holds advanced study in history from the University of Chicago, a detail that surfaces in his thoughtful, research-minded approach to product decisions and technical trade-offs.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. History & Politics, B.A. History & Politics at West Virginia UniversityMasters History, Masters History at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (15)
activerecord10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
logging10
rails10
imp10
logger10
impressions10
ruby10
poltergeist6
html6
google-api6
capybara6
google-authentication6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
charlotte-ruby/impressionist
Oct 2011 - Nov 2011
Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 29 days
Contributions summary:Cory primarily focused on enhancing the impressionist Rails plugin, adding features related to counter caching for impression counts. They implemented logic to update counter cache columns and added corresponding tests. The user's work involved modifications to both the model and test files, demonstrating a focus on feature implementation and ensuring code reliability through testing. The contributions included adjusting the migration file and documentation related to the plugin's features.
railshotel-bookingmlsrubyplugin
coryschires/hover-caption
Feb 2010 - Sep 2011
Contributions:29 commits in 1 year 7 months
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