Kory Taborn
Software Architect at Protagona
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKory Taborn is a software architect with 11 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance, cloud-native systems from Dallas, Texas. He has led architecture and engineering efforts at Protagona and Rackspace after helping scale Onica through acquisition, and has repeatedly modernized legacy .NET platforms to .NET Core and Kubernetes to boost throughput and resilience. Kory specializes in building data pipelines, eventual-consistency bulk update engines, and CI/CD-driven deployments on AWS (Fargate, CDK, CloudFormation) while applying Ports & Adapters and mediator patterns for maintainable domains. His background includes optimizing APIs to handle millions of requests, migrating large user bases to new messaging platforms, and creating product delivery systems that power affiliate revenue—work that blends hands-on coding with architectural strategy. A former Air Force deployment manager, he brings disciplined operational thinking to software reliability and automation, often reducing manual workflows by orders of magnitude.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at ArlingtonComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at United States Air Force Academy
English
Github Skills (200)
atom-editor10
json-schema10
json10
styles10
python10
ftp10
pythonic10
cli-application10
command-line-utility10
bittorrent10
aria210
dependency-management10
visual-studio-code-extension10
sftp10
validation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
BrutalSimplicity/hackerrank
Sep 2014 - Mar 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 4 years 7 months
BrutalSimplicity/XmlDiffLib
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Library for finding the differences between two Xml files.
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
xmlfindingxml-filesdifferences
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