Kory Becker
Software Engineering Team Lead, Crowdsourcing at Bloomberg LP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKory Becker is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building web, AI, and quantum-enabled systems, currently leading Crowdsourcing engineering at Bloomberg. He combines hands-on architecture and full-stack development—Node.js, Python, C#, React and cloud services—with a deep interest in machine learning, program synthesis and quantum computing. Kory has delivered award-winning consumer and enterprise products featured in major outlets and authored a practical guide to Alexa voice apps, reflecting a knack for shipping user-facing innovations. His open-source contributions span front-end theme work and genetic-algorithm program synthesis, revealing a rare blend of UI polish and evolutionary AI experimentation. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs academic curiosity (IBMQ/Qiskit experience, ACM member) with cross-industry delivery across media, healthcare, finance and research institutions.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Delaware
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Github Skills (22)
customizer10
javascript10
artificial-intelligence10
genetic-algorithm10
custom-theme10
css10
hexo10
front-end-development10
customisation10
ai10
dotnet-core10
html10
csharp10
ejs10
static-site9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
primaryobjects/AI-Programmer
Jan 2013 - Jan 2023
Using artificial intelligence and genetic algorithms to automatically write programs. Tutorial: http://www.primaryobjects.com/cms/article149
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:217 commits, 5 PRs, 56 pushes in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kory contributed to the development of a genetic algorithm for program synthesis. Their work involved implementing features to save fitness history as a CSV file for plotting, making history logging optional, and refactoring and moving the storage of history paths into the GAParams object. This included modifications across multiple files, adding and adjusting settings for the genetic algorithm.
cmsgenomepythongenetic-algorithmsc-sharp
ppoffice/hexo-theme-hueman
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
A redesign of Alx's wordpress theme Hueman, ported to Hexo.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 17 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kory primarily contributed to the theme's front-end features and user interface. They added functionality to customize the website's logo, including image, width, and height adjustments. Furthermore, they implemented support for Disqus identifiers for comments and page subtitle display. Additionally, the user fixed a bug related to Fancybox and added a widget for sticky posts, enhancing the overall user experience.
alxwordpresswordpress-themehuemanhexo
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