Ruby on Rails engineer, Army veteran, and product-focused developer with 6+ years of experience building operational web applications and internal tooling.
I enjoy building software that solves real workflow problems — especially systems that need to balance maintainability, performance, and thoughtful user experience. Most of my recent work has focused on Rails applications involving complex state management, background processing, authorization, and modern frontend interactions.
I’m particularly interested in:
- Pragmatic Rails architecture
- Developer tooling and workflows
- Performance optimization
- Operational/product systems
- AI-assisted developer experiences
- Clean, maintainable software design
- Building modern Rails applications with Hotwire and Stimulus
- Exploring AI-assisted workflow tooling through projects like SeederKit
- Writing about architecture, developer experience, and pragmatic software engineering
- Improving performance and maintainability in long-lived Rails applications
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL
- Hotwire / Turbo / Stimulus
- Sidekiq / background jobs
- REST APIs
- React
- TailwindCSS
- Vite
- Docker
- AWS
- Vim / Tmux / Zsh
- Blog: https://corymcodes.github.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corymusick
- Email: cory.musick37@gmail.com
“Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.”