# Cory McDonald

> Software Engineer at Unrivaled

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/corymcdonald

Experienced Engineering Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in Ruby on Rails, Mentoring, Leadership, and Strategy.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Unrivaled Basketball
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Architect @ BARK
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

### Senior Engineering Manager @ BARK
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
- Led streamlined Box of the Month Assignment flow
- Migrated 1 million active subscriptions from Recurly into Shopify

### Engineering Manager @ BARK
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
- Grew Payments team from 1 to 8, focusing on diversity
- Managed remote members across 5 zones.
- Focused on long-term subscription platform maintainability, leading unification efforts.
- Championed tech documentation centralization and distributed on-call processes.
- Integrated Github Copilot into our development organization.
- Responsible for 3rd-party payment system integration, Recurly, Braintree and PayPal integration.
- Codify revenue recognition system from subscription contracts, with prepaid amortization.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Brave Software
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
Team Lead and Senior Fullstack Engineer for Creators Application. Building a way to pay people for the content they create. 

- Assisted in development of anti-fraud and payment operations.
- Responsible for developing solutions for over 1 million registered users. 
- Optimized and automate support operations for the Brave Rewards platform.

### Software Engineer @ Cerner Corporation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Kansas City, Missouri Area
- Responsible for creating, testing, and code reviewing features in 8 separate applications. 
- Gave multiple technical talks over React and Typescript. 
- Mentored over 15 new software engineers and guided them through foundational programming concepts, best practices, software architecture, and professionalism.

### Software Engineering Intern @ J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016
Throughout the course of the internship learned how develop enterprise quality code. Introduce team to new processes such as asynchronous code reviews, and unit testing. Youngest intern to be hired, special exceptions had to be made to hire a high school student.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Arkansas
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22