Summary
Cory Sturgis is a Principal Staff Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with 11 years building high-performance full‑stack applications using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and React/Next.js. He blends deep frontend craftsmanship—Shopify theme and UI/UX work—with backend systems design, recently leading platform and delivery efforts at SKIMS and Dolls Kill. Cory has a consistent track record of mentoring and teaching (UCLA Extension and bootcamps) and has moved between hands-on engineering and people leadership roles, ensuring teams ship polished user-facing products. His background in audio engineering and early AV/event work gives him an uncommon sensitivity to performance, media, and real‑time user experience challenges. Known for rapid prototyping as an independent contractor and for scaling frontend architecture in health and e‑commerce domains, he excels at turning design-driven concepts into maintainable production systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
iOS Development, iOS Development at Mobile Makers Academy
BS Audio Engineering, BS Audio Engineering at University of North Carolina Asheville
English, Spanish, Thai