Cory Zue
Founder at SaaS Pegasus
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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RockstarCory Zue is a founder and software leader with 17 years of experience building web and back-end systems, currently splitting time between Dimagi and several solo ventures including SaaS Pegasus and Place Card Me. He helped grow CommCareHQ—the backend for a global, offline-first mobile platform for frontline workers—contributing export, OData, and user data integrations. At Dimagi he moved from CTO to Chief Accelerator, blending hands-on engineering with product and business development. Earlier roles at Oracle and MIT Lincoln Laboratory sharpened his systems and research grounding, and his open-source contributions (e.g., RapidSMS) show a long-standing focus on robust data modeling and API work. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he combines pragmatic engineering with product intuition and an appetite for shipping practical tools that serve large-scale public health and enterprise needs. An offbeat detail: he oscillates between coding, writing, and doing business stuff—often in the same week.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (37)
python10
django10
editor9
amazon-elasticsearch9
nosql9
javascript9
git9
cross-platform9
github9
apidoc9
data-modeling9
http9
newline9
aws-elasticsearch9
rest9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dimagi/commcare-hq
May 2009 - Mar 2022
CommCareHQ is the server backend for CommCare, the world's largest platform for designing, managing, and deploying robust, offline-first, mobile applications to frontline workers worldwide
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:143 reviews, 18280 commits, 4256 PRs in 13 years
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the CommCareHQ project. They focused on enhancing the export and OData functionality, as well as integrating user data sources for the Polio project. Their work included adding and modifying code within the corehq/apps/export and corehq/apps/userreports directories. They also worked on tests within the userreports app.
deployingreactworldwidefrontlineweb-application
rapidsms/rapidsms
Apr 2009 - Feb 2013
Build SMS applications with Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:954 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to the development of the back-end by adding features to the supply app and fixing bugs. They focused on data modeling and database interactions by adding models, adding unicode methods for display, and implementing a system of partial transactions. The user also added and improved the http backend, demonstrating their proficiency with API development and server configuration within the Python environment.
pythonsmspython3
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