# Cory Madden

> Software engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/corymadden

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Standard Metrics
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Lead Software Engineer @ Trym
Jan 2018 – Jan 2025
-Hired as first full time engineer on the team and brought the product from 0-1

-Led the migration of core IoT integrations from a Django monolith to AWS EC2 microservices,
introducing SQS queues to improve scalability and reliability of sensor data ingestion.

- Defined and enforced engineering standards for test coverage, clean code practices, and
architectural patterns adopted across the backend team

- Optimized Metrc compliance sync performance 10x by refining ORM queries and
restructuring PostgreSQL models to reduce API timeouts

- Cut deployment time ~50% by improving CI/CD and release processes.

- Partnered with CEO/Product Manager to define features, translate business goals into scalable
architecture

- Collaborated with customer support to design internal tools that automated common issue
resolutions, reducing engineering intervention by more than 50%

- Designed secure REST APIs and optimized ETL pipelines processing 100K+ rows/day

- Delivered multiple 3rd-party integrations with auth, rate limiting, and retry logic

- Mentored junior engineers in codebase, TDD, and best practices(such as SOLID and clean code)

- Authored internal design docs and technical references to reduce knowledge silos across teams

Stack: Python, Django/DRF, React, PostgreSQL, AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, EC2, Route 53,
RDS, DynamoDB), Docker, Terraform, Git, CircleCI, Pandas/NumPy, Linux, Redis

### Backend Developer @ FFL Design, LLC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
Designed and implemented payment processing software and hardware integration
Built out point of sale system and web store
Python, Django, payment processing software and hardware integration(TSYS/Clearent), API Development, PostgreSQL

### Fullstack Web Developer @ DataFly
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Optimized data storage and retrieval by migrating from MongoDB to a relational DB in Postgres that improved data aggregation speeds by greater than 90%, and a month's worth of data was reduced from 280MB to 16MB.

### Software Developer Intern @ PDX Code Guild Agency
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Using Django's built-in ORM I designed the relational database for a web app for hospitals to conform to interpreter policies. I also wrote RESTful API endpoints and AJAX requests for the front-end.

### Assistant Instructor(Temporary) @ PDX Code Guild Agency
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Temporary instructor for the PDX Code Guild. Teaching database principles, SQL, and JavaScript.

### Network Administrator @ United States Marine Corps
Jan 2006 – Jan 2011
Maintained and installation of DNS and Exchange servers
Leadership and organization of marines under my supervision
Updated encryption on radios and was responsible for cryptography key on my base during deployment
Provided communications and defensive support on convoys


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Science
Portland Community College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/corymadden

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Last updated: 2026-03-29