Cory Watson
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Airbnb
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCory Watson is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and infrastructure leader with 20 years of experience designing observability and reliability systems for high-throughput, mission-critical platforms. He built and led observability teams at Twitter and Stripe, created monitoring infrastructure that drove tens of millions in annual savings, and has deep hands-on experience from early-stage analytics startups to large tech organizations. As a founder he translated operational pain points into a product, ran customers and fundraising, and maintains a pragmatic balance between technical implementation and organizational change. Now at Airbnb, he focuses on scalable infrastructure and cross-functional reliability initiatives while still enjoying the craft-level details of tooling and instrumentation. Based in Nashville, he brings a rare combination of large-scale production ops, engineering leadership, and product-building experience—plus an unexpected fondness for shoes.
20 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
N/A Computer Science, N/A Computer Science at Motlow State Community College
Github Skills (161)
python10
elasticsearch10
monitoring10
pipeline10
search-engine10
git-addons10
java10
git-hooks10
changelog10
agent10
fault-tolerant10
fault10
restful10
datadog10
devops10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gphat/datadog-scala
Oct 2014 - Dec 2016
Datadog library for Scala
Contributions:35 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 3 months
scalasbtfs2cats-effectshapeless
gphat/censorinus
Feb 2016 - Apr 2020
Censorinus is a Scala *StatsD client with multiple personalities.
Contributions:197 commits, 26 PRs, 156 pushes in 4 years 2 months
scalastatsdstatsd-client
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