Cory Vanhooser
Blockchain Lead - Staff Software Engineer at Amberdata
Louisville, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCory Vanhooser is a blockchain-focused staff software engineer with a decade of experience building secure, high-performance systems and leading engineering teams. He discovered Bitcoin in 2017 and has since channeled that passion into production blockchain work and architectural leadership at Amberdata and Voyager. Known for an obsession with optimization, Cory systematically embeds security into development lifecycles rather than treating it as an afterthought. His background spans cloud-native engineering, technical leadership, and hands-on implementation across startups and scaleups, with a BA in Software Engineering, Mathematics, and Psychology from the University of Michigan–Dearborn. Based in Louisville, Colorado, he brings a pragmatic mix of deep technical rigor and product-minded engineering to make decentralized systems more accessible.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA Software Engineering Mathematics Psychology with distinction, BA Software Engineering Mathematics Psychology with distinction at University of Michigan-Dearborn
English
Github Skills (10)
server-side6
pdf5
experiment5
javascript4
nodejs4
package4
kafka3
rxjs2
librdkafka2
data-wrangling2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cvhooser/learning-rust
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
cvhooser/compare
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 10 months
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