Cory Smith
Owner at Shiny Stone Digital
North Richland Hills, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorCory Smith is a veteran software developer and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience building mission-critical applications for e-commerce and broadcast radio, including platforms used by more than 4,600 stations worldwide. As founder of Shiny Stone Digital and a longtime leader at RadioTraffic.com and Marketron, he blends hands-on VB/.NET engineering with product leadership and systems-level thinking. A 12-time Microsoft MVP and past president of multiple .NET user groups, Cory is deeply engaged in the developer community through speaking, mentoring, and running BASICSIG and AddressOf.com. He specializes in Windows-centric technologies—Windows Forms, Win32 interop, WPF and T-SQL—while also bringing pragmatic architecture and legacy modernization experience. Outside of code he teaches combative martial arts and rides motorcycles, a combination that reflects his disciplined, risk-aware approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (200)
xaml10
windows10
esoteric-language10
winforms10
code-analysis10
visual-studio10
uno10
esoteric-programming-language10
roslyn10
linux10
dotnet10
browser10
midi10
windows-forms10
audio10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
CommunityVB/Community.VisualBasic
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Alternate Microsoft.VisualBasic runtime created to support ease-of-use VisualBasic .NET 5+ development for non-WinForms projects (.net standard 2.x, console, cross-platform, etc.) with a goal of "built and evolved by the community".
Contributions:1 review, 27 commits, 1 PR in 2 years
goalruntimedotnetcorewpfease-of-use
DualBrain/CheckersSolitaire
Feb 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 9 pushes in 7 years 10 months
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