Courtney Wurtz is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, APIs, and data pipelines across startups and product companies. She has led architecture and full-stack delivery—from Go-based APIs and React frontends to Kubernetes/GCP infrastructure—driving modernization projects that serve tens of millions of users and partnerships. Courtney blends hands-on engineering (PHP, Node, Ruby, Elixir, Go) with strategic decisions that improve reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency, and she’s delivered measurable impact such as a 20x increase in content output through AI tooling. A pragmatic leader and mentor, she fosters cross-functional collaboration between engineering, marketing, and content teams while refining developer practices. Her background includes building managed Airflow services, high-throughput clickstream pipelines, and novel engineering solutions like a custom GIF encoder and RTSP streaming for 3D printing monitoring.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Information Systems at University of Dayton
CLI to interact with Astronomer's public Airflow cloud
Contributions:12 releases, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 9 months
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