Summary
Kory Gill is a seasoned technical leader with 30+ years of hands-on software and infrastructure experience, currently driving cloud-native and IaC initiatives as a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle. He has led engineering teams and shipped core platform features at Microsoft, Tableau/Salesforce, and startups, blending deep systems-level expertise (storage, Windows, Azure, Kubernetes) with product-minded execution. Kory excels at automating large-scale Linux fleets, building CI/CD and observability stacks, and designing secure, FIPS-compliant images and custom Kubernetes operators. A former co-founder who raised venture capital and shipped privacy-focused products and homomorphic encryption research, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with enterprise discipline. Known for clear communication, mentoring, and a willingness to take measured risks, he consistently turns ambiguous, hard problems into reliable, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
English, Spanish