# Corey Ford

> Senior software engineer taking a break

Location: Berlin Metropolitan Area, Germany
Profile: https://flows.cv/coreyford

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Helped launch a distributed rate limiting system that can coordinate across hundreds of thousands of servers. Developed a client library used by teams across Amazon to protect their Rust, Java, Node, Go, and Python applications against high load. Coached several engineers to maintain and support the library.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Software Development Engineer @ IMDb.com
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020
Owned full-stack images and news features in a vertical team structure, then later owned shared API layers in a horizontal team structure. Migrated systems from legacy Perl to service-oriented Java to serverless TypeScript.

Delivered key functionality allowing IMDbPro subscribers to receive push notifications when people or titles they select are in the news. Designed and built GraphQL infrastructure at the center of a director-level effort to modernize the architecture of IMDb's consumer website and mobile apps.

### Engineering Intern @ Socrata
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Improved metrics infrastructure for an open data platform. Enhanced customer-facing analytics dashboards. Prototyped an event-based architecture for metrics.

### Junior Software Engineer @ Software Inventions
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Developed web applications for computer science education. Implemented distributed, sandboxed processing of student code submissions. Conducted research on student programming behavior. Administered production Linux servers.

### Platform Engineering Intern @ Mozilla Corporation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, California
Implemented CSS sticky positioning in Firefox. Spearheaded W3C standardization of sticky positioning. Fixed bugs in the Gecko layout engine.

### Web Development Intern @ Remote Sensing Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Sonoma County, California, United States
Constructed interactive web-based presentations of atmospheric data (JavaScript). Updated data-processing code to accommodate new satellite instruments (IDL). Introduced a content management system to power a small website.

### Software Development Intern @ Empire West Plastics
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Sonoma County, California, United States
Improved e-commerce websites and intranet tools (ColdFusion, jQuery). Developed complete customer reviews functionality in close collaboration with a designer. Enhanced mobile usability by implementing HTML5 media. Developed framework for HTML customer emails.


## Education
### BS + MS in Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016

### Exchange studies in Information and Communication Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fordcorey
- Website: http://coreyford.name/
- GitHub: https://github.com/coyotebush

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Last updated: 2026-03-22